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Politics : Foreign Affairs Discussion Group
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To: jttmab who wrote (172523)10/15/2005 11:05:25 AM
From: Don Hurst  Read Replies (1) of 281500
 
>>"My question [and the question that followed] in my previous post made the subtle suggestion that you were making certain conclusions based on being unaware of what was going on in the world wrt Y2K. You don't know what was going on in the US; what software was being modified and you know even less about what any other country was or was not doing. You have no idea how many legacy COBOL programs, an otherwise obsolete programming language, were floating around the US. Do you know why legacy COBOL programs was a Y2K issue?"<<

You will have to wait for an answer while Carl consults all those "microcircuitry design engineers" he knows. You are confusing him with those "legacy COBOL programs" and please don't mention assembler and all those old emulation programs that were still out there undocumented.

Savvy computer types knew that Y2K was clearly overblown but they also knew there was a problem out there with very unknown effects, particularly on the financial world, that should be fixed and the IS world did certainly benefit from the new software installed and upgrades made. A lot of needed positive changes were made in a very short time because of the Y2K scare.

Also, nice to see Carl has learned how to imitate jla. He shows great promise.
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