From: dewarr@my-dejanews.com
Subject: Re: ada c c ++ software engineer
Date: 1998/09/18
Date: 1998-09-18T00:00:00+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <6ttm05$kf0$1@nnrp1.dejanews.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: EACHUS.98Sep17211231@spectre.mitre.org
In article <EACHUS.98Sep17211231@spectre.mitre.org>,
eachus@spectre.mitre.org (Robert I. Eachus) wrote:
> In article <1998Sep17.092746.1@eisner> kilgallen@eisner.decus.org (Larry
Kilgallen) writes:
>
> > > Estimated Ending Date 9/9/99
>
> > > Permanent Position
>
> > One more proof that English is not a strongly typed language.
>
> Or that the company hasn't fixed it's year 2000 problems yet. The
> 9/9/99 idiom for indefinite expiration was used in many COBOL shops.
> --
Interesting! Quite true that this idiom was common. This
would imply a mini-Y2K type panic less than a year from now,
which perhaps will be effective as a kind of early-warning
gauge for how well people have fixed up their software :-)
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Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
1998-09-16 0:00 ada c c ++ software engineer shoba
1998-09-17 0:00 ` Dale Stanbrough
1998-09-17 0:00 ` David C. Hoos, Sr
1998-09-17 0:00 ` Larry Kilgallen
1998-09-18 0:00 ` Robert I. Eachus
1998-09-18 0:00 ` dewarr [this message]
1998-09-22 0:00 ` Y2K comes early (was Re: ada c c ++ software engineer) Robert I. Eachus
1998-09-25 0:00 ` Robert S. White
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