On Wed, Nov 29, 2000 at 04:27:04PM -0700, Ian S. Nelson wrote:
> c) octals were invented for UNIX file permissions and not
> programming
You must be joking. Read much history of computing? Or
alt.folklore.computers? Octal was very natural for 18- and 36-bit
machines, after all.
Jeff
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