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To: John Mansfield who wrote (1807)	5/14/1998 6:31:00 PM
From: Investor-ex!	Respond to of 9818

John, It's Fleckenstein, not Finkelstein :o) This in from Gary North: Why Programmers Can't Fix It Ellen Ullman shows why a new generation of programmers cannot understand the original code, and why members of the older generation will not ride in on white horses to fix it. The original code no longer communicates to those who wrote it, let alone to those who have patched it... garynorth.com Personally, I've worked on plenty of archaic source code. Lots of it of it well past the point reasonable maintainability.

To: John Mansfield who wrote (1807)	5/17/1998 2:26:00 PM
From: John Mansfield	Respond to of 9818

[G8] 'http://birmingham.g8summit.gov.uk/forfin/finance.shtml [snip] Financial Stability: Supervision of Global Financial Institutions 6. Since the Lyon and Denver Summits, work has been underway to strengthen the international financial system. Recent events in Asia, combined with the rapid consolidation and globalisation in the financial sector, have highlighted once again the need to improve urgently co-operation between supervisors of internationally active financial institutions. We welcome the work done by the international regulatory bodies in this area and urge them to move quickly towards implementation of the concepts they have devised. Today we have reached important conclusions in a separate report. We commend the 10 Key Principles on information exchange which we will be promoting throughout the world as standards to which all countries should aspire. The G7 also looks forward to the continuing contribution of the private sector to developing international standards that enhance the supervision of global financial firms, while reducing regulatory burdens. On the year 2000 issue, we call on the Basle Committee, the International Organisation of Securities Commissions (IOSCO), the International Association of Insurance Supervisors (IAIS) and the Committee on Payment and Settlement Systems (CPSS), and their newly formed joint Year 2000 Council to monitor the work that firms in the financial area already have underway, and to do all that they can to encourage compliance. [end snip] -- Harlan ___ Subject: G8 on Y2K Date: 17 May 1998 03:34:23 EDT From: "Harlan Smith" <hwsmith.nowhere@cris.com> Organization: Paperless Newsgroups: comp.software.year-2000