1 Mar
2002
1 Mar
'02
5:35 a.m.
On Fri, 1 Mar 2002, Douglas Quebbeman wrote:
perhaps, although that sounds more like james martin's style...
Ken Olsen also said that no one would ever want a computer in
their home, nonetheless the products created during his tenure
remain very important, especially to people here.
Hindsight's 20-20, and lots of people get stuck in their paradigms...
Edward Yourdon recounts an episode in one of his
textbooks about a
large assembly language program that was comment-free, except for
a single line (don't know the real processor so I'm faking the
instruction):
Edward Yourdon. Isn't he the idiot that played Chicken Little before the
new "millennium" and screamed that everything run by computer was going
to break and we were all doomed as a species and we should all buy
thousands of gallons of water and tons of food and bury them along with
ourselves in a plastic bin somewhere out in the desert? 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...
:)
-dq
1 Mar
1 Mar
12:32 p.m.
On Fri, 1 Mar 2002, Douglas Quebbeman wrote:
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.
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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... 
2 Mar
2 Mar
9:58 a.m.
New subject: Y2K non-event was RE: Write only programming
Or cynical marketers. It did provide a boost to the economy for some. I'm
still waiting for all the people who bought gas generators to grow tired of
having them kicking around in the garage or basement and to start flooding
the resale market. I wish someone had come up with a general fix for the
programs like Sidekick or Lotus Organiser that don't work now. Not enough
money in it. The Chicken Littles who made big bucks popularising the scam
should be sentence to hard labor providing fixes.
Lawrence
On Fri, 1 Mar 2002, Douglas Quebbeman wrote:
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.
Sellam Ismail Vintage Computer Festival
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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...
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