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Billennium's Over - Anything Break?

Posted by michael on from the anti-climax dept.

An Anonymous Coward writes: "The billennium party at OpenProjects.Net rocked! Check out the log for the whole event over here. Please don't forget to use one of the mirrors. Thanks :-)" Well, anyone have anything break due to the rollover?

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  1. yes... i broke... by CSIP · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    its just wrong to see a unix timestamp start with a 1 im gonna end up trying to debug a problem that doesnt exist...

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  2. Re:My mail client - pronto broke. by smallpaul · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    As a Python bigot (flame-bait me!) I'll point out that Perl, PHP and a few other Unix-y scripting languages are especially prone to this problem because they don't distinguish between strings and integers. I always knew that there would be a payoff in Python requiring me to explicitly convert.

    This seems like a cheap shot but really there is a systemic issue here. Perl trades robustness for succintness whereas Python tends to require you to say what you mean explicitly. With perfect programmers there would be no difference. In the real world, programmers are not perfect and a language that helps you to find potential problems can yield quantitatively more robust code.