From: eachus@spectre.mitre.org (Robert I. Eachus)
Subject: Re: ada c c ++ software engineer
Date: 1998/09/18
Date: 1998-09-18T00:00:00+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <EACHUS.98Sep17211231@spectre.mitre.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 1998Sep17.092746.1@eisner
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.
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Robert I. Eachus
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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 [this message]
1998-09-18 0:00 ` dewarr
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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