22 Oct
1998
22 Oct
'98
12:34 a.m.
>So, believe it or not my naive young man, people
are dumb enough to lose
>the source code.
What I don't believe are these claims that the
heart of the Y2K
problem are thousands of businesses running apps as old as I am,
that haven't had to change, or that can't be changed. How many
serious businesses are still running the same unchanged sourceless
app since 1978, much less 1968 or 1958?
Most of them are not completely unchanged, but the changes
are only in some parts that have been changed every year once
or twice - and large parts haven't changed at all for the last
20 or 30 years.
Also don't forget - for some programm parts there might be
a source, but the object code has been patched (not uncomon)
and the source doesn't reflect the programm. Or source tools
(assemblers etc) where used, wich are not availabe today !
Or the source is stored in a library where no LMS needed is
available - or they are stored on tapes no longer readable
(to bee correct no longer readable means in most cases only
they can't be just inserted and read - you know, some of the
Y2K heros don't spend more than 20 minutes before they decide
'Source gone').
Gruss
H.
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Ich denke, also bin ich, also gut
HRK