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Article #632654Y2K Is Rapidly Becoming an Untouchable Problem
From: dashl... Dash Langan
Date: Wed, 09 Apr 1997 00:00
Date: Wed, 09 Apr 1997 00:00
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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! 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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From: dashl...@geocities.com (Dash Langan) Subject: Y2K Is Rapidly Becoming an Untouchable Problem Date: 1997/04/09 Message-ID: <199704091837.UAA06305@basement.replay.com> X-Deja-AN: 231858452 Distribution: inet X-To: mail...@basement.replay.com X-XS4ALL-Date: Wed, 09 Apr 1997 20:38:03 CEST X-Mail2News-Info-Url: http://www.replay.com/mail2news/ X-Mail2News-Errors-To: postm...@replay.com Organization: Posting Service Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers,comp.databases,comp.databases.ibm-db2,comp.databases.visual-dbase,comp.lang.asm370,comp.lang.c,comp.lang.c++,comp.lang.fortran,comp.misc,comp.programming MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit