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From: Derek Clarke <derek.clarke@gecm.com>
Subject: Re: Papers on the Ariane-5 crash and Design by Contract
Date: 1997/04/04
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Date: 1997-04-04T00:00:00+00:00
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dewar@merv.cs.nyu.edu (Robert Dewar) wrote:
<snip>
>But ... could the cost of fixing the Y2K mess, including the cost of
>ancilliary litigation associated with this mess, exceed x, and wipe out
>the aggregate advantage (in a business sense) of computers counted over
>their history so far???
Personally I don't regard the cracking of Enigma and therefore saving 
thousands of Allied lives as an advantage wiped out by Y2K costs...

That's the first year of computer history dealt with - need I go on?

The wholly economic argument that computers save money overall is 
probably wrong. It's the spot savings that make the difference.