A Date With Tim Peters...

Joe Louderback jlouder at wfu.edu
Thu Dec 2 12:26:07 EST 1999


Phil Mayes (nospam at bitbucket.com) wrote:
> David N. Welton wrote in message <87puwpg7kp.fsf at freddy.page.street>...
> 
> > 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.

To be fair, we Fortran programmers can start arrays with any index, so even
the 4 BC problem can be solved ;-)

Joe Louderback




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