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Apparently it's to do with longnow.org and encouranging long-term thinking.
by lambdaba 5y ago
Apparently it's to do with longnow.org and encouranging long-term thinking.
- eggy 5y agoFunny, I followed longnow for a while, and I never saw it, but that was a while ago. A lot of cool people on the project.
- xscott 5y agoIt's a poor choice in a many programming related contexts. To me, it looks like a malformed octal constant.
- kragen 5y agoHey, in K&R C, 8 and 9 are valid octal digits. But these are decimal years based on Dionysius Exiguus's miscalculations.