Rick McGowan scripsit: > Michael Everson asked: > > > Do you really think that algorithm with all its warts is going to be > > used 50 years from now? I really would like to know. > > You want warts, Mr Everson? Well, let's take a look at some history...
Would the French scientists who set out to rationalize weights and measures have believed that after 200 years their sensible system would dominate the whole world *except one country*, the at-the-time most progressive nation on Earth, deviser of the closely analogous decimal currency system? -- But that, he realized, was a foolish John Cowan thought; as no one knew better than he [EMAIL PROTECTED] that the Wall had no other side. http://www.ccil.org/~cowan --Arthur C. Clarke, "The Wall of Darkness"
