A Date With Tim Peters...

[Christian Tismer]

Phil Mayes wrote:
> 
> David N. Welton wrote in message <87puwpg7kp.fsf at freddy.page.street>...
> >Guido van Rossum <guido at CNRI.Reston.VA.US> writes:
> >
> >> Come and join us at the Key Bridge Marriott in Rosslyn (across the
> >> bridge from Georgetown), January 24-27 in 2000.  Make the Python
> >> conference the first conference you attend in the new millennium!
> >
> >Doesn't the new millenium actually start in 2001?
> 
> Only for FORTRAN programmers.  Python and C programmers, being zero-based,
> get to celebrate a year earlier.

Another viewpoint:
What is your first birthday?
It is the day after your first year of life,
which starts on your zeroth birthay which is your birth.

years-are-interval-counts - ly 'yrs - chris

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