Who is the world's oldest working programmer?

Get a copy of the "Standard "C" library" by Plauger, lots of discussion on the issues of coding for EBCDIC machines with HEX floating point.... Dave G4UGM -----Original Message----- From: cctalk-bounces at classiccmp.org [mailto:cctalk-bounces at classiccmp.org] On Behalf Of Mouse Sent: 28 September 2014 14:40 To: cctalk at classiccmp.org Subject: Re: Who is the world's oldest working programmer? C _can_ do that; indeed, many of the freedoms granted to the compiler are there to support such machines. (That most C coders these days are unaware of that, and write as if the whole world were x86 Linux, is the fault of the coders, not the language.) Even machines that can't really support C can usually support something C-like enough that only the more language-lawyery types would refrain from calling it C. (For example, I once worked in such a language on an 8051 - int was 8 bits and long 16, I think, but it was otherwise C.) /~\ The ASCII Mouse \ / Ribbon Campaign X Against HTML mouse at rodents-montreal.org / \ Email! 7D C8 61 52 5D E7 2D 39 4E F1 31 3E E8 B3 27 4B