Re: Software Engineering News Brief

[Steve Jones - JON <Steve.Jones@eurocontrol.fr>]

Larry Kilgallen wrote:
> 
> In article <32805050.417820504@news>, davidb@datalytics.com (David Bradley) writes:
> > seic@sw-eng.falls-church.va.us (Software Engineering News) wrote:
> 
> No, Ada, like many other environments tries to lead one in the
> direction of avoiding the century problem, but one can always
> choose not to follow.  As a matter of fact, one can even encode
> years using only a single digit, but that is more hazardous as
> there is increased chance of being at the same employer when
> everything falls apart.
> 
> Larry Kilgallen


But remember you can always blame one of the people who _has_ left,
and produce your fix in 0 seconds flat to the amazement of
management :-)

Steve Jones

PS Ada makes it harder to programme badly and makes bad programming
   easier to spot and to correct IME.