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> 01983
> 01979
thats not how you write years, or even numbers really.
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buzzy_hacker
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Guessing it’s from following the style of
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Long_Now_Foundation
bch
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They're written in awktal.
fuzztester
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are you sure it's not hexal or binal?
kragen
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as long as it's not intercal
fuzztester
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he he. iirc, esr said somewhere that he wrote an interpreter for intercal.
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