Stephen A. Lawrence wrote:
You would have to write your own date routines instead of using the
prepackaged ones, and you have to be both incompetent and inventive...
Then Microsoft qualifies. Windows had some collection of Y2K problems
which were fixed via last-minute service packs a few months before the big day.
I rest my case.
#13?? There are 9 computer languages more popular than COBOL and less
popular than C++?
And there are two others more popular than C++?
Apparently. According to this web site:
http://www.developer.com/lang/article.php/3390001
It surprised me.
Unfortunately Pascal self-destructed. Which really was too bad; it was
turning into a nice language before the big implosion in ... um ... 1986,
I think. . . .
Borland's extended version lived on. And lives now. See:
http://www.borland.com/us/products/delphi/index.html
It's lovely.
It did include that, and I personally performed it. This was for things
like municipal billing systems and first generation grocery scanners.
In 1980? I thought they came later.
NCR had 'em in 1980. The first scanner was installed by RCA in a Cincinnati
in 1970. The standard barcode Uniform Product Code was adopted in 1974, and
the first grocery item, a packet of gum, was scanned by an NCR register in
1974. That part I remembered. For the rest, see:
http://www.cnn.com/TECH/computing/9907/08/1970.idg/
- Jed
