Write only programming - test-drb@ccmp.vtda.org

2 Mar 2002

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  On Fri, 1 Mar 2002, Douglas Quebbeman wrote:

   I
don't think anything he says (or has ever said) has much relevance
 anymore. 
 No, like Brooks, he made points about the development of large-scale
 projects which remain valid. Yourdon certainly wasn't alone in the
 Y2K chiken-little mentality... and I don't feel inclined to consign
 them, lock, stock, and barrel, to perdition, not quite yet, anyway...  
 Look, as far as I'm concerned, anyone who thought the world would end
 after the clocks turned to the year 2000 are idiots and deserve to be
 ignored. 
Ah, c'mon... if a flat-earther suggests wearing seat belts is a Good
Idea, you aren't going to stop wearing them, are you?

;)

-dq