Re: 5th USENIX Conf on Object-Oriented Tech & Sys (COOTS'99) - CFP

[Stephen.Leake@gsfc.nasa.gov]

nobody@REPLAY.COM (Anonymous) writes:

> On Wed, 13 May 1998 20:21:02 GMT, jackson@usenix.org (Jackson Dodd)
> wrote:
> 
> > ...
> > As the last COOTS before the new millennium, COOTS '99 will focus 
> > ...
> 
> Apparently there will be no COOTS in 2000, the last year of the 2nd
> millenium.

Ok, I'll bite (it's late Friday, and I haven't written any Ada today :).

Who says the next millenium can't start with 2000? That's when most of
the digits change. That's when the 21st century begins (the "century"
is the first two digits of the year, plus one). That's when all the
non-Y2K programs will break. The current millenium started in 1000 AD,
the one before that in 0 AD, the one before that in ... hmm, things
get tricky for BC, but I'll just ignore that.

-- Stephe