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To: John Mansfield who wrote (1509)3/28/1998 5:02:00 PM
From: John Mansfield   of 1936
 
The Year 2000 Problem and the New Riddle of Induction

Theoretical article about the famous book of Capers Jones; who made world-wide estimates for the costs of y2k remediation.

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Figure 2.Year 2000 Expenses by Programming Language (as percentage of total cost)

Here you see: 'Year2000 expenses by programming language':

Cobol 24.1 %
Asembler 10.7 %
Others 29.9 %

Here you can see that the assembler remediation is clearly an underestimated part of total remediation costs. In most articles about y2k, Cobol gets almost all attention. However, Capers estimates that Assembler remediation costs about 40 % of the remediation costs of Cobol programs.

(although the number of lines of code of Cobol programs is relatively much higher. This is explained by the fact that Assembler is a more complicated program to remediate; therefore the cost per line of code is much higher compared to Cobol.)

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