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ahmed zahmed wrote: C programming language back at number 1 position[^]
When was programming in C number 2 anyway?
There might be more developers available in other programming languages, but then that does not count, right?
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Could this be related to the year 2038 bug[^]?
I remember that back in the seventies (when my programming skills where mostly 360 Assembler, PL/I, and COBOL  )
we started seeing maintenance on some programs for the year 2000 bug. Most commercial contracts had a maximum length of 20 or 25 years (mortgages for instance), and people started panicking because they could not store the end date of the contract (and they had not thought of a wrap-around solution for storing the end date).
Now since the Unix routine store dates as a binary int, a wrap-around solution is probably more complicated to implement (especially when sorting is involved), and what we may be seeing may be maintenance on these old programs.(2038 is about 30 years away  .
There was a time in the eighties-nineties when C started to become popular for business programs (mostly because most Unices didn't have a COBOL compiler worth mentioning), and the millennium bug was something taboo. (You didn't talk about it, lest your boss discover that you had been writing software with a shelf life of a couple of years) so what we may be seeing is maintenance on programs that stored their dates in Unix format (relational databases were not very popular then, and I don't even think that market leaders like DB/2 and Oracle had a 'date' format). On the other hand, decimal arithmetic was (and is) notoriously hard to do in C, so people were happy to use the Unix date() function.
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Hmm, what about Cobol? Then again, Cobol starts with C.
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Hurray for C!
Two heads are better than one.
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just vaporware?
Sorry, couldn't resist. Undoubtedly, not original!
Marc
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Just a result of foggy thinking, but it mist the mark.
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I will never again mention that I was the poster of the One Millionth Lounge Post, nor that it was complete drivel. Dalek Dave
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Every dark cloud has a silver lining, and I think this one has more than a drop of potential. Just needs developers with a clearer outlook before it will precipitate oceans of usefulness.
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But then you'll get some damp tosser Hailing the arrival of a new technological age that'll Rain over us.
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It'll blow over in no time.
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Cloud Computing == When somebody tweets with his/her friends or updates the facebook status from a netbook(trash) while on a Plane.
The definition is updated by Webster and Wikipedia as we speek
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MDL=>Moshu wrote: speek
is that like "geek speak", or "tweet speak"???  
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speek is "geek speak", "tweet speak" is also known as spit.
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Get cirrus guys. 
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It's a hurricane of three-letter-acronyms that'll soon dwindle to a storm of nothingness and end with a wimpy-wisp of a sigh.
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Clouds are already raining cats and dogs.
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..... Nah, more of a nebulous concept!
Dalek Dave: There are many words that some find offensive, Homosexuality, Alcoholism, Religion, Visual Basic, Manchester United, Butter.
Pete o'Hanlon: If it wasn't insulting tools, I'd say you were dumber than a bag of spanners.
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Oh, JSOP, posting so we'll 1-vote for you again؟
There really needs to be a punctuation mark for a rhetorical question. 
EDIT: There IS a punctuation mark for rhetorical questions. Who knew؟
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aspdotnetdev wrote: EDIT: There IS a punctuation mark for rhetorical questions. Who knew
I did, but I wasn't telling. 
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Take a look at the voting on his/her article, I guess it's the only way to hit back at the community.
It's time for a new signature.
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That's one of the first things I did. I thought, "maybe I voted one of his articles a 1 and he's lashing out". That wasn't the case, and his own overall voting history is rife with 1 votes. In any case, the message was removed along with the associated vote, and I've put away my .45 (although I don't know how I would have gotten it on the plane, much less, into Jordan itself.
.45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly
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"The staggering layers of obscenity in your statement make it a work of art on so many levels." - J. Jystad, 2001
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5.
The reasons are many:
0) You posted a programming link in the lounge => should be posted in the Links forum
1) The subject => "Bad" is not KSS(I have no ideea what that means but... trust me it's not)
2) John Simmons / outlaw programmer's signauture says: 45. ACP - because shooting
You should post that in the Shoouting Forum.
3) John Simmons / outlaw programmer's signauture says: kerosene
4) John Simmons / outlaw programmer's signauture says: obscenity
These last two should go to the NATO forum
Peace
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Perhaps he meant it in this[^] sense of the word?
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I couldn't see the video because it's "blocked in my country on copyright grounds".
.45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly
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"Why don't you tie a kerosene-soaked rag around your ankles so the ants won't climb up and eat your candy ass..." - Dale Earnhardt, 1997
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"The staggering layers of obscenity in your statement make it a work of art on so many levels." - J. Jystad, 2001
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