basic-computer-games/95_Weekday/perl

Original source downloaded from Vintage Basic

Conversion to Perl

I have replaced the manual date logic with Perl built-ins to the extent possible. Unfortunately the kind of date math involved in the "time spent doing ..." functionality is not well-defined, so I have been forced to retain the original logic here. Sigh.

You can use any punctuation character you please in the date input. So something like 2/29/2020 is perfectly acceptable.

It would also have been nice to produce a localized version that supports day/month/year or year-month-day input, but that didn't happen.

Also nice would have been language-specific output -- especially if it could have accommodated regional differences in which day of the week or month is unlucky.

Tom Wyant