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Technology Stocks : Discuss Year 2000 Issues -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Snowshoe who wrote (1748)	5/9/1998 11:09:00 PM
From: Cheeky Kid	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 9818

Greg, It's no doubt it is going to be one heck of a job fixing the systems out there, that article I posted just shows the problem solving that can be done if one puts their mind to it. I still believe solutions are out there and nothing is impossible. RE: www2.computerworld.com Remember on May 25, 1961 President John F. Kennedy announced to the nation a goal of sending an American safely to the Moon before the end of the decade. It was successfully accomplished on July 20, 1969. At the time that was a very bold statement and a very large goal. Lots of problems to solve, but they did it.

To: Snowshoe who wrote (1748)	5/10/1998 1:46:00 AM
From: foobert	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 9818

Converted Software Many years ago I worked on a project where we had to convert RPG programs through an automated tool into COBOL. (new system did not have native RPG capability) The resultant code was unmaintainable because the conversions resulted in huge COBOL programs with a multitude of obscure labels. If I remember it right, we gave up on the conversion tool and ended up re-writing a bunch of the programs. This is generally true for any automatically generated code I have ever looked at - very big, and very hard to understand. I would be interested in hearing how well the Y2K conversion tools are doing. Are the converted Y2K compliant programs maintainable?