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To: Zeuspaul who wrote (6159)	2/9/1999 8:06:00 PM
From: Spots	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 14778

>>The guy that invented area codes and two digit dates must have moved onto harddrives<g>. For all of you younger whippersnappers, let me tell you that not only did it make good sense at the time but we, those of us who were developing software in the sixties, seventies, and eighties, and even the early nineties, would have got our butts fired for wasting resources anticipating problems that would "never come up in the lifetime of this application." I am quoting many managers I have heard personally in unison. Though I had reservations, I cannot honestly say I disagreed with them. My honest reservations were no where near strong enough to make a lot of exceptions in my own code. Why? Because I never believed these applications would survive. Short sighted? Well, in 20-20 hindsight, maybe. In foresight? Poop. Actually, the vast majority of these applications have NOT survived. It's not at all clear to me that the y2k costs we are now experiencing would exceed the costs of avoiding it. In fact, I doubt it. Current pundits have no effing idea of the expense of a few bytes per record even 10 or 15 years ago, much less 30. This is why I play Doom while you guys are cloning OSs. Or partly. I admit I've cloned OSs out the wazoo while putting up my new PCs. And I observed that I could have installed the whole damn thing from scratch 20 times over in the time I have spent covering my backside. Same trade off. Figure your costs. Life's uncertain, so you're going to miss it. That's what plans B, C, D, and E are for. End of old fart's diatribe.