Ok, if some SO nazi will edit my question to something totally different, then I don't want to ask it anymore.
Thanks.

PS: I asked "who uses octal?", not where or for what they are used. Because, as I imagined, people will start to copy & paste useless information from wikipedia.
I know what octal, hexa, binary and bases in general are. I just don't know anyone who uses octal these days.

I just banged my head against the table for some 20 minutes looking at a totally weird bug in PHP, and then I realized there's octal. The <%(*&#> octal.

In short, I padded some literals with zeros so the code would be aligned, I know, big mistake. Forgot about octals.

The question is, does anyone use octals for anything other than file permissions? (I personally prefer chmod ugo+rwx but I understand that if they have to be programmaticaly generated, it's useful to use octals.) But are they useful in any other situation?

I just banged my head against the table for some 20 minutes looking at a totally weird bug in PHP, and then I realized there's octal. The <%(*&#> octal.

In short, I padded some literals with zeros so the code would be aligned, I know, big mistake. Forgot about octals.

The question is, does anyone use octals for anything other than file permissions? (I personally prefer chmod ugo+rwx but I understand that if they have to be programmaticaly generated, it's useful to use octals.) But are they useful in any other situation?

PS: Someone edited my question from "who uses octal?", which is pretty different from what's now the question.
I don't want people to paste wikipedia text here, I just don't know anyone that uses octal in programming, and wnated to know about someone who does. And I mentioned file perimissions explicitly because I know it's used for that, but besides...

Ok, if some SO nazi will edit my question to something totally different, then I don't want to ask it anymore.
Thanks.

PS: I asked "who uses octal?", not where or for what they are used. Because, as I imagined, people will start to copy & paste useless information from wikipedia.
I know what octal, hexa, binary and bases in general are. I just don't know anyone who uses octal these days.

I just banged my head against the table for some 20 minutes looking at a totally weird bug in PHP, and then I realized there's octal. The <%(*&#> octal.

In short, I padded some literals with zeros so the code would be aligned, I know, big mistake. Forgot about octals.

The question is, does anyone use octals for anything other than file permissions? (I personally prefer chmod ugo+rwx but I understand that if they have to be programmaticaly generated, it's useful to use octals.) But are they useful in any other situation?

I just banged my head against the table for some 20 minutes looking at a totally weird bug in PHP, and then I realized there's octal. The <%(*&#> octal.

In short, I padded some literals with zeros so the code would be aligned, I know, big mistake. Forgot about octals.

The question is, does anyone use octals for anything other than file permissions? (I personally prefer chmod ugo+rwx but I understand that if they have to be programmaticaly generated, it's useful to use octals.) But are they useful in any other situation?

PS: Someone edited my question from "who uses octal?", which is pretty different from what's now the question.
I don't want people to paste wikipedia text here, I just don't know anyone that uses octal in programming, and wnated to know about someone who does. And I mentioned file perimissions explicitly because I know it's used for that, but besides...