Stephen M said something like:
"Less cumbersome"?? Not in my opinion.

"seven thirty seconds" is preferable to "seven five"?

I'm not really serious that it's a viable nomenclature, it just seems
that there 's a while lot of chaff in the current system.

But then again I'm comfortable in hexidecimal.

So am I (first job out of college was assembly-language programming
on a 370/145 DOS/VSE)

VAX assembler & BLISS

Ah....a DEC old-timer.

I actually was a programmer for DEC in high school cira 1981. My junior
year, working in the hiighly coveted "BASIC and RTL" department up in MK2 in
Merrimack, NH.

Big time hooey, because for some reason, BASIC ruled the roost up there.
Bliss was what everything serious was written in and was a very cool idea.
Sitting approximately 2 inches (5.08 cm ) above assembly language it was
a pretty nifty portable solution, particularly at the time. At least IMHO.

I wonder if I could write a "JBliss" compiler (to java VM code) ?

Maybe when my table project is done...

PS. Ever do mental arithmetic to compare the old DECsystem 10's to, say, a
Dell 3 Ghz desktop? LOL...


....[john jacob jingleheimer snip]...