Re: OT: Canadian Tax Database

In article <45EFE705.2030104@archonet.com>,
Richard Huxton <dev@archonet.com> wrote:
% http://www.thestar.com/News/article/189175
%
% "For instance, in some cases the field for the social insurance number
% was instead filled in with a birth date."
%
% Unbelievable. Sixty years of electronic computing, fifty years use in
% business and the "professionals" who built the tax system for a wealthy
% democratic country didn't use data types.

To be fair, this is not "the tax system". It's a staging database
used for electronic filing, and it's pretty common to use typeless
databases in the first stage of that sort of application.
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Patrick TJ McPhee
North York  Canada
ptjm@interlog.com