This isn't really a WTF if you have to deal with a population where half of the people never even went to elementary school, and can maybe add or subtract a few numbers (what you need from day to day when buying food etc.), but never learned multiplication or division. A lookup table for the conversion can be used by almost everyone, even illiterates can use it (by comparing "pictures").
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RE: Conversion table
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RE: Only an ASP developer...
[quote user="MET"]
As an example consider this two line code, which could occur if b and c were very long names or function calls and needed a line break.
a = b
+c;
Both lines are valid statements on their own (admittedly the second does little) but the semicolon tells the compiler the statement continues on the next line.
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Nope, the second line isn't a valid statement, at least not in C. There is no unary + in C.
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RE: Hotel WTF
[quote user="joe.edwards@imaginuity.com"]
Of course, if one took your information from such a form and then printed it and faxed the printout, it would be a real WTF.
[/quote]Actually, in Germany, there is a Pizza Delivery portal (http://www.bringdienst.de/) where you can order pizza from some local delivery service. They indeed send the order you post via the web to the delivery service by fax.
However, this way, the local pizza place (which is just a small shop with a pizza oven and a counter most times here in germany) isn't required to have an internet connection to participate in the portal. A fax machine on the other hand is owned by almost every business over here for other reasons.