Q: Why do programmers always get Christmas and Halloween mixed up?

[Colin McGregor]

On Mon, Nov 1, 2010 at 12:09 PM, Lennart Sorensen
<lsorense-1wCw9BSqJbv44Nm34jS7GywD8/FfD2ys at public.gmane.org> wrote:
> On Sat, Oct 30, 2010 at 01:14:40AM -0400, Robert Brockway wrote:
>> A: Because DEC 25 = OCT 31
>>
>> Ok how many of you confirmed the result? :)
>
> I think your joke is a couple od decades out of date.  Who uses octal
> anymore?

Might be a question, when is the last time you had to deal with octal
numbers on a regular basis? For myself the answer was mid-1990s, the
Toronto Free-Net had a Cisco ASM terminal server as part of the
dial-up modem pool which insisted on numbering off all the modems in
octal. This sort of worked out okay, as each rack of modems contained
16 modems, which we could treat as 1-20 (octal)...

Colin.
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