Re: Java 7 features


"Twisted" <twisted0n3@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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On Jul 31, 8:14 pm, Wojtek <nowh...@xxxxx> wrote:
Twisted wrote :


That's the same language whose two-digit-year date type was
responsible for ~70% of Y2K bugs, so you may be expecting a bit too
much of it here. :)

Not really.

Oh, for Christ's sake, is there *always* a nitpicker waiting in the
wings??!

In general, if you say something dead wrong, you can count on being
corrected.

COBOL can handle 4 digit years.

Obviously*. It just didn't do so by default. :P

It didn't do *anything* by default. Programmers had to choose how to
represent dates as character fields; some chose two-digit years.


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