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Non-Tech : Tulipomania Blowoff Contest: Why and When will it end?

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To: Cheeky Kid who wrote (2405)	1/5/2000 6:53:00 PM
From: BelowTheCrowd	Read Replies (1) of 3543

Hey Kid, I don't know what computer programmers you talk to. I've been one myself. And everybody I know in my own profession has been convinced that with a reasonable amount of work, the thing could be avoided. That is exactly what happened. The people who prediced doom and gloom were mostly people who never wrote a line of code in their lives. The top folks to blame were Peter de Jager, a dutch "consultant". Ed Yardeni, an economist. And the Gartner Group, also a bunch of consultants. Those of us in the trenches have been laughing at them all the way. mg

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