'What does matter are the 50,000+ who didn't enter the Enterprise Scale IT work force *every year* between 1985 and now
>
> I graduated from college 9 years ago.
>
> Since then, I've been coding in Cobol, CICS with bits of JCL and SAS
> thrown in.
>
> Done a load of Y2k remediation work, and would not describe myself as
> useless. Although my soccer teammates probably would.... <g>
>
*Just about* anyone is useless....
I thought about mentioning Northern Illinois University and hinting that
here and there a few had escaped the Pee Cee Wee Nee-ification process, hadn't
wasted their time doing NeXT and Objective C (whatever happened to that
turkey?), Windows 3.1 API calls in C but in the grand scheme of things, a few
tens of thousands of Enterprise gearheads don't matter very much.
What does matter are the 50,000+ who didn't enter the Enterprise Scale IT work
force *every year* between 1985 and now. The roughly half to one million who
didn't learn S/370 assembler, COBOL, Rexx, PL/I, MVS internals, SMP-E, IOS,
VM/CMS, RSCS, JES2/3, VTAM, EXCPVR, etc., this is where the problem is.
Because they weren't there, Enterprise systems and IT got stupider, more addled,
glaze eyed every year. Millions of lines of code were not upgraded, brought
forward, recompiled, re-documented, and now, now with 592 days until Y2K, we
don't have the experts, the systems, or the sharp middle management to execute
the conversions.
We *still* have denialheads in c.s.y2k; still have a corporate and government
world that's wondering what's happening.
>
> Back to code-cranking and lurking
>
> Cormac Hand
cory hamasaki 5-9-2 days to go.
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Subject:
Re: Another way to embed century info into a 6-digit numeric field
Date:
18 May 1998 18:51:25 GMT
From:
kiyoinc@ibm.XOUT.net (cory hamasaki)
Organization:
IBM.NET
Newsgroups:
comp.software.year-2000
References:
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