Warp escribió:
> 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?
> 

Ugh... lol

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