Re: [fpc-pascal] best? safest? fastest?

2014-08-08 Thread waldo kitty
On 8/7/2014 4:35 AM, Mark Morgan Lloyd wrote: waldo kitty wrote: On 8/6/2014 4:08 AM, Mark Morgan Lloyd wrote: I'd be inclined to start off using your method 1, i.e. text manipulation until the format is consistent. i don't understand until the format is consistent... the format has been in

Re: [fpc-pascal] best? safest? fastest?

2014-08-06 Thread Mark Morgan Lloyd
waldo kitty wrote: i suspect this is going to be like the long-standing joke of cheap, fast, stable: choose two over the years, i've seen two schools of code for dealing with dates... years, specifically... one school is string based and the other is math based... both have their faults

Re: [fpc-pascal] best? safest? fastest?

2014-08-06 Thread waldo kitty
On 8/6/2014 4:08 AM, Mark Morgan Lloyd wrote: waldo kitty wrote: i suspect this is going to be like the long-standing joke of cheap, fast, stable: choose two over the years, i've seen two schools of code for dealing with dates... years, specifically... one school is string based and the

[fpc-pascal] best? safest? fastest?

2014-08-05 Thread waldo kitty
i suspect this is going to be like the long-standing joke of cheap, fast, stable: choose two over the years, i've seen two schools of code for dealing with dates... years, specifically... one school is string based and the other is math based... both have their faults and pluses... eg: