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Re: CGI question
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lugnet.off-topic.geek
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Sat, 8 Apr 2000 04:38:00 GMT
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In lugnet.off-topic.geek, Sproaticus wrote:
> Matthew Miller wrote:
> > Javascript story: I just came across someone the other day who was mad
> > because he had to "covert all his equal signs into double-equals so they'd
> > work with netscape". Hrm. Not exactly confidence-inspiring, that.
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> I had a C programming class in college with this woman who was upset that
> "MOVE TO" and "MULTIPLY BY" weren't part of the C language. The moment she
> said that, an eerie silence fell over the classroom...
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> The punchline is that two years later, she was making more money than any of
> us, doing Y2K fixes.
Scary bit of COBOL code one of my co-workers ran across today (he was
given the code because it's the closest thing to documentation available
for a file he has to deal with):
IF FLD_XYZ_YR < 29 THEN
FLD_XYZ_YR4 = 2000 + FLD_XYZ_YR4
ELSE
FLD_XYZ_YR4 = 1900 + FLD_XYZ_YR4
ENDIF
(ok, ok; this isn't the verbatim code. But the meaning is there.)
I'd say the Y2K programmers haven't earned their last overtime bonus
yet.
Steve
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| (...) Sure. That's a pretty typical Y2K fix. And it's basically what you do as a human when looking at a two-digit year. (If I tell you that the expiration date on my driver's license is 12-30-02, you assume 2002. If I tell you it's 12-30-98, you (...) (24 years ago, 8-Apr-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| (...) I had a C programming class in college with this woman who was upset that "MOVE TO" and "MULTIPLY BY" weren't part of the C language. The moment she said that, an eerie silence fell over the classroom... The punchline is that two years later, (...) (24 years ago, 7-Apr-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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