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From: Joachim Pense on 22 Feb 2010 11:02 jmfbahciv (in sci.lang): > Mike Barnes wrote: >> António Marques <entonio(a)gmail.com>: >>> On Feb 21, 1:09 am, Andrew Usher <k_over_hb...(a)yahoo.com> wrote: >>>> Mike Barnes wrote: >>>>> Adam Funk <a24...(a)ducksburg.com>: >>>>> >From man 5 crontab: >>>>>> When specifying day of week, both day 0 and day 7 will be >>>>>> considered Sunday. BSD and AT&T seem to disagree about this. >>>>> But they presumably agree that day one is Monday. >>>> But 0 is the start of computer indexing - at least in real programs. 0 >>>> = Sunday. >>> Ahem. In low level, pointer oriented languages such as C and its >>> family. And those who chose to imitate it. >> >> But not in the first language I used when working for a living (COBOL). >> > Nor FORTRAN DO statements. Most people start at 1. You can also > write an off-by-1 bug in loops depending on whether you start the loop > with 0 or 1. > Neither Pascal. Joachim -- My favourite # 88: <http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=54XRNQ2C2x0> My favourite # 24: <http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bz3EkkdFwvU>
From: CDB on 22 Feb 2010 11:24 Yusuf B Gursey wrote: > Brian M. Scott <b.scott(a)csuohio.edu> wrote: >> Robert Bannister <robban1(a)bigpond.com> wrote: >>> Yusuf B Gursey wrote: >>>> Mike Barnes <mikebar...(a)bluebottle.com> wrote: > >> [...] > >>>>> But I thought that for most people the whole point of >>>>> Easter is that they get time off work. > >>>> not in the US, at least not in my state. > >>> Are you saying that Easter is not a holiday in your state? > >> He's saying that people don't get time off work on account >> of it. Which is doubtless true; I don't, either. > > yes. it is not an official holiday, but there is a slowing down of > bussiness, as some businesses give employees vacation or have a > reduced > employee load. I am not a Christian, and while in college I had > asked why > we were not eating at the regular cafetaria during. the woman in > charge, a Puerto Rican, answered in shock: "it's Good Friday!" > AM Klein: > "The advantages of living with two cultures Strike one at every turn, Especially when one finds a notice in an office building 'This elevator will not run on Ascension Day'; Or reads in the Montreal Star: 'Tomorrow being the Feast of the Immaculate Conception, There will be no garbage collection in the city'; ...".
From: Michael Stemper on 22 Feb 2010 12:38 In article <%GIfn.45264$lB6.23443(a)newsfe16.ams2>, "Androcles" <Headmaster(a)Hogwarts.physics_u> writes: >"R H Draney" <dadoctah(a)spamcop.net> wrote in message news:hlni3r01mb3(a)drn.newsguy.com... >> Robert Bannister filted: >>>Androcles wrote: >>>> The USA doesn't have a football schedule. The rest of the world plays >>>> football, the USA calls that soccer and then plays it's own version of >>>> parochial handball. >> >> One expects such a reaction from someone who inserts an apostrophe into >> possessive "its".... > >Oops... I forgot that is one possessive word that doesn't have an apostophe. mine, yours, his, hers, its,ours, theirs. Not one possessive pronoun has an apostrophe. -- Michael F. Stemper #include <Standard_Disclaimer> This message contains at least 95% recycled bytes.
From: Evan Kirshenbaum on 22 Feb 2010 12:50 mstemper(a)walkabout.empros.com (Michael Stemper) writes: > "Androcles" <Headmaster(a)Hogwarts.physics_u> writes: >>"R H Draney" <dadoctah(a)spamcop.net> wrote in message >>>>Androcles wrote: > >>>>> The USA doesn't have a football schedule. The rest of the world >>>>> plays football, the USA calls that soccer and then plays it's >>>>> own version of parochial handball. >>> >>> One expects such a reaction from someone who inserts an apostrophe >>> into possessive "its".... >> >>Oops... I forgot that is one possessive word that doesn't have an >>apostophe. > > mine, yours, his, hers, its,ours, theirs. > > Not one possessive pronoun has an apostrophe. One should be sure of one's facts before making such assertions. (Or should that be "ones"?) -- Evan Kirshenbaum +------------------------------------ HP Laboratories |Feeling good about government is like 1501 Page Mill Road, 1U, MS 1141 |looking on the bright side of any Palo Alto, CA 94304 |catastrophe. When you quit looking |on the bright side, the catastrophe kirshenbaum(a)hpl.hp.com |is still there. (650)857-7572 | P.J. O'Rourke http://www.kirshenbaum.net/
From: R H Draney on 22 Feb 2010 13:03
Adam Funk filted: > >On 2010-02-21, António Marques wrote: > >> On Feb 21, 1:09 am, Andrew Usher <k_over_hb...(a)yahoo.com> wrote: > >>> But 0 is the start of computer indexing - at least in real programs. 0 >>> = Sunday. >> >> Ahem. In low level, pointer oriented languages such as C and its >> family. And those who chose to imitate it. > >From Verity Stob's "Thirteen Ways to Loathe VB": > > 4. Another thing about arrays. The index of the first element is 0, > unless it is set to 1 by a directive. > > 5. But there are also collections, modern object-oriented versions > of arrays. And the first element of these is usually 1, unless > it happens to be 0. Sometimes it is 0 and sometimes it is 1, > depending on where you found it. Do you feel lucky, punk? Well, > do ya? In APL, indexing starts at one unless you've explicitly set it to zero by setting the system variable quad-IO....r -- "Oy! A cat made of lead cannot fly." - Mark Brader declaims a basic scientific principle |