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Dash Langan (dashl...@geocities.com) wrote:
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From: dashl...@geocities.com (Dash Langan)
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Subject: Y2K Is Rapidly Becoming an Untouchable Problem
Date: 9 Apr 1997 20:37:59 +0200
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: Now, pay attention:  I said that Y2K is rapidly becoming an
: untouchable problem; I did not say that Y2K is becoming an
: unsolvable problem.
: 
: The reason I am characterizing Y2K thus is because too much
: time is passing.  Capable programmers have enough intelligence
: to turn down all Y2K job offers no matter how much green is
: waved under their noses.  This is because they are savvy enough
: to deduce that any installation which has waited this long to
: address Y2K is probably plagued with untenable human resource
: problems, particularly in management.
: 
: What capable programmer is going to be willing to leave his
: current job to take the big risk of walking into a pit of an
: environment where there is inept management, gross incompetence,
: and the prospect of having to face 20,000,000 lines of code
: that have to be converted yesterday?  I have witnessed situations
: which were not to the liking of programmers who walked within
: short order, sometimes in less than a day, and capable programmers
: are the ones most likely to do so.
: 
: Now where will this leave installations that are pits of
: environments?  Up the creek, that's where.  But there is
: an alternative.
: 
: The work can be sent to India where people are very well
: experienced with things of an untouchable nature.
: 
: We can have the "Open and Shut Window Technique" Y2K correction
: code inserted into your programs with or w/o testing as desired!
: No problem!  Reasonable rates!
: 
Let me guess, a few lines of visual basic code?

: The "Open and Shut Window Technique" can be found at url:
: http://www.geocities.com/ResearchTriangle/3462/
: 
: If you have not seen the latest version of this web page which
: includes the absolute value function in the sample code snippet,
: then you are advised to pay a revisit.
: 
: Comments to: dashl...@geocities.com
: 
: Dash Langan
: --
: We're not yellow.  We go anywhere.
: 

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