Re: OT: Canadian Tax Database

Richard Huxton 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.

This is Unbelievable? This is commonplace.

Joshua D. Drake