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=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,583275b6950bf4e6 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-Thread: 1108a1,59ec73856b699922 X-Google-Attributes: gid1108a1,public X-Google-Thread: fdb77,5f529c91be2ac930 X-Google-Attributes: gidfdb77,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2003-05-11 15:13:10 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!logbridge.uoregon.edu!arclight.uoregon.edu!wn13feed!wn12feed!wn14feed!worldnet.att.net!204.127.198.203!attbi_feed3!attbi_feed4!attbi.com!sccrnsc02.POSTED!not-for-mail Message-ID: <3EBECAF3.4010509@attbi.com> From: "Robert I. Eachus" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.0.2) Gecko/20021120 Netscape/7.01 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.lang.java.advocacy,comp.object,comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Using Ada for device drivers? (Was: the Ada mandate, and why it collapsed and died) References: <9fa75d42.0304230424.10612b1a@posting.google.com> <4a885870.0304291909.300765f@posting.google.com> <416273D61ACF7FEF.82C1D1AC17296926.FF0BFD4934A03813@lp.airnews.net> <9fa75d42.0305010621.55e99deb@posting.google.com> <9fa75d42.0305090937.2bbe1238@posting.google.com> <5s29SIA1KKv+EwcU@nildram.co.uk> <9fa75d42.0305100927.422ffb88@posting.google.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit NNTP-Posting-Host: 24.62.164.137 X-Complaints-To: abuse@attbi.com X-Trace: sccrnsc02 1052691189 24.62.164.137 (Sun, 11 May 2003 22:13:09 GMT) NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 11 May 2003 22:13:09 GMT Organization: AT&T Broadband Date: Sun, 11 May 2003 22:13:09 GMT Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.java.advocacy:63533 comp.object:63212 comp.lang.ada:37201 Date: 2003-05-11T22:13:09+00:00 List-Id: soft-eng wrote: > Y2K impact was overestimated! I normally don't respond to trolls, but this was too much. Go get a list of the banks in business in 1995. Doesn't have to be complete, for example it could be a list of all banks with federal charters. Now look at the same list for the year 2000. Over 90% of the banks from your first list will have disappeared, and not due to name changes. The Y2K crisis was underestimated for over a decade, then it started getting the attention it deserved. The result was a lot of bank mergers to reduce the cost of the software work required. In the area where I live, one bank, St. Mary's Bank and a couple of credit unions survived. All the rest eventually merged into other banks. (In case you care, Bank of New Hampshire was one of those that moved into the area by buying other banks. I had one checking account which went through five banks and another that went through four during this period, as banks were swallowed by bigger banks, then merged again and again.)