From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.3 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,INVALID_MSGID autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,37e6dbf5e31f6da0 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-Thread: ff6c8,37e6dbf5e31f6da0 X-Google-Attributes: gidff6c8,public X-Google-Thread: 1108a1,37e6dbf5e31f6da0 X-Google-Attributes: gid1108a1,public X-Google-Thread: 10db24,37e6dbf5e31f6da0 X-Google-Attributes: gid10db24,public X-Google-Thread: f43e6,37e6dbf5e31f6da0 X-Google-Attributes: gidf43e6,public From: Steve Jones - JON Subject: Re: Software Engineering News Brief Date: 1996/11/05 Message-ID: <327F71EB.5CA5@eurocontrol.fr>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 194656730 references: <55dr50$ch1@ns1.sw-eng.falls-church.va.us> <32805050.417820504@news> <1996Nov5.111914.1@eisner> content-type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii organization: Eurocontrol Experimental Centre mime-version: 1.0 newsgroups: comp.lang.ada,comp.sw.components,comp.object,comp.software-eng,comp.edu x-mailer: Mozilla 2.0 (X11; I; HP-UX A.09.05 9000/720) Date: 1996-11-05T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: 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.