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Technology Stocks : Discuss Year 2000 Issues

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To: John Mansfield who wrote (657)12/11/1997 2:11:00 PM
From: John Mansfield  Read Replies (1) of 9818
 
Y2K-Europe. No help from India for German banks?

'Y2K Discussion on the board of the CDU - the German party of Chancellor Kohl:

Posting:
cdu.de

Thread:
cdu.de

A German programmer:

'A large german bank wanted to remediate their programs in India. There was a slight problem, however: the source code was in English; but most of the programmers had written their comments in German. Now try to understand a program when you can not understand the comments.'

'Eine grosse Deutsche Bank wollte z.B. ihre Programme in Indien ueberarbeiten lassen. Gab allerdings ein kleines Problem:
Der Source-Code ist zwar in Englisch, aber die meisten Progs haben ihre Kommentare in Deutsch geschrieben. Jetzt versuchen Sie sich mal in ein Programm einzulesen, ohne das Sie die Kommentare verstehen.'

John
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