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,f8c318eb567dfc20 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public From: dewarr@my-dejanews.com Subject: Re: ada c c ++ software engineer Date: 1998/09/18 Message-ID: <6ttm05$kf0$1@nnrp1.dejanews.com>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 392389437 References: <6tpl2c$t$1@news.mainstreet.net> <1998Sep17.092746.1@eisner> X-Http-Proxy: 1.0 x8.dejanews.com:80 (Squid/1.1.22) for client 205.232.38.14 Organization: Deja News - The Leader in Internet Discussion X-Article-Creation-Date: Fri Sep 18 13:08:20 1998 GMT Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada X-Http-User-Agent: Mozilla/2.02 (OS/2; I) Date: 1998-09-18T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: In article , 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 :-) -----== Posted via Deja News, The Leader in Internet Discussion ==----- http://www.dejanews.com/rg_mkgrp.xp Create Your Own Free Member Forum