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,f948976d12c7ee33 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2003-06-29 01:29:35 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!logbridge.uoregon.edu!arclight.uoregon.edu!enews.sgi.com!news-out.superfeed.net!propagator2-maxim!news-in.superfeed.net!newsfeed01.tsnz.net!news.xtra.co.nz!53ab2750!not-for-mail From: "AG" Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada References: <3EFC6FC2.B96DAEA4@adaworks.com> <1056731513.272294@master.nyc.kbcfp.com> Subject: Re: Boeing and Dreamliner X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Newsreader: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2800.1106 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1106 Message-ID: Date: Sun, 29 Jun 2003 20:30:40 +1200 NNTP-Posting-Host: 219.88.60.59 X-Complaints-To: newsadmin@xtra.co.nz X-Trace: news.xtra.co.nz 1056875375 219.88.60.59 (Sun, 29 Jun 2003 20:29:35 NZST) NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 29 Jun 2003 20:29:35 NZST Organization: Xtra Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:39883 Date: 2003-06-29T20:30:40+12:00 List-Id: "Hyman Rosen" wrote in message news:k2wLa.21663$N%6.3746@nwrdny02.gnilink.net... > The Araine 4 programmers exactly reproduced the Y2K problem in microcosm. > They wrote code that took advantage of limited input range, and sent it out > into the world with insufficient protection against the future. It was > perfectly good in the same way as two digit years. > Come to think of that, had anyone heard of a really dramatic Y2K failures? Something on the scale of that example?