y2k stuff

From: Jim Strickland <jim_at_calico.litterbox.com>
Date: Mon Jan 4 18:25:01 1999

What boggles the mind is that this is a problem at all. It seems hard to
believe (in retrospect) that people really did deliberately build software
with only 2 digit years. I know it saved a few bytes, and yes, I remember
when a byte of memory was a significant amount, but still. How did standard
programming practice come to be so short sighted as to assume that software
infrastructure would be thrown out and replaced on a regular basis?

-- 
Jim Strickland
jim_at_DIESPAMMERSCUMcalico.litterbox.com
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