C News patch of 7-Sep-1990
Wayne Schlitt
wayne at dsndata.uucp
Fri Sep 21 21:50:39 AEST 1990
In article <18549 at rpp386.cactus.org> jfh at rpp386.cactus.org (John F. Haugh II) writes:
<
< i know better than to get involved in this ...
[ but does anyway ... ]
<
< both dates and numbers are sequential. july always follows june, just
< as 7 always follows 6. yet there are no numbers intervening 6 and 7,
< unlike jun-01-90 and jul-31-90. thus, there is more information
< contained in the statement "this is patch #7" than in "this is patch
< jul-31-90".
well, the obvious solution to this problem is to simply release one
patch per day. :->
-wayne
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