[Tutor] pass tuples to user defined function(beginner)

[emile]

Dave Angel wrote:

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 > The whole Y2K problem was caused because
> too many programmers made unwarranted assumptions about their data (in 
> that case about the range of valid dates).  

Well, yes.  But we knew then that the stuff we were writing wouldn't 
still be in play 25 years out.  :)

> And they were also saving 
> space, in an era where hard disks were available for maybe three 
> thousand dollars for 10 megabytes.

I remember it well... if not fondly.  5Mb internal and 5Mb removable. 
Eventually (by 1980) we could buy 80Mb drives dumbed down to 35Mb for 
$20k.  Quite a bit better than the IBM mag-card system I started with, 
itself a step up from single use punch cards...

Emile