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,FREEMAIL_FROM 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: fdb77,5f529c91be2ac930 X-Google-Attributes: gidfdb77,public X-Google-Thread: 1108a1,59ec73856b699922 X-Google-Attributes: gid1108a1,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2003-05-12 06:51:29 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!postnews1.google.com!not-for-mail From: softeng3456@netscape.net (soft-eng) 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) Date: 12 May 2003 06:51:28 -0700 Organization: http://groups.google.com/ Message-ID: <9fa75d42.0305120551.75f61cbb@posting.google.com> References: <9fa75d42.0304230424.10612b1a@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> <3EBECAF3.4010509@attbi.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: 32.97.239.19 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: posting.google.com 1052747489 10965 127.0.0.1 (12 May 2003 13:51:29 GMT) X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com NNTP-Posting-Date: 12 May 2003 13:51:29 GMT Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.java.advocacy:63572 comp.object:63239 comp.lang.ada:37238 Date: 2003-05-12T13:51:29+00:00 List-Id: "Robert I. Eachus" wrote in message news:<3EBECAF3.4010509@attbi.com>... > 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.) I thought banks merged due to economic issues -- if any single merger was related to Y2K, it sure wasn't publicized.