Talk:Calendar: Difference between revisions

:Test the calendar by generating a calendar for the year 1969 on a line printer of the time with a width of 132 characters.

:Ideally the program will generate well formatted calendars for any page width from 20 characters up.

:Kudos (κῦδος) for routines that also correctly transition from Julian to Gregorian calendar in September 1752.

While generating a particular year is fine, a Real Programmer would not have written their calendar generator to handle arbitrary widths of display. Instead, it would have either produced for 132-char wide line printers or 80-char wide terminals. In this day and age, nobody's got line printers any more so formatting for an 80-char terminal is what we must put up with. Given that, I propose that the task should state that the calendar should be tested by generating a calendar for the current year suitable for an 80-column device. Adaptation to other widths, other years and other languages are all to be extra-credit items. –Donal–[[User:Dkf|Donal Fellows]] 08:3436, 4 June 2011 (UTC)