Alain <ele### [at] netscapenet> wrote:
> It would have been so much simpler to store all numbers and dates as binary, 
> with input/output formating filters...
> The peoples who created that must have been crazy! At the time, RAM and storage 
> where at a premium, and you waste precious memory to store EVERYTHING as 
> strings... Not to mention that doing arithmetics on strings is prety slow.

  You don't understand. They were actually visionaries. Ahead of their time.
They correctly envisioned the current trend in programming, where memory
usage and speed are a non-issue. Why make a program fast when computers
are getting faster?

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                                                          - Warp

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