Of course! The Abacus was probably around during Sun Tzu's time.

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Brian Kelsay

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Gerald Combs <> 02/16/05 01:25PM >>>

Jason Clinton wrote:

On Wednesday 16 February 2005 10:49, Brian Densmore wrote:

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Tzu's Art of War :: Microsoft Press). Overloading functions is taken from c/c++. Something that could be done most likely with java code.

Actually I believe it comes from LISP or possibly Smalltalk or its predecessor Simula.

Next you'll be telling us that there were personal computers before the IBM PC. Sheesh.