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Subject: Re: Resume eyewash
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In article <VA.00000674.00ed73d0@airstrip>, davem@airstrip.demon.co.uk says...
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>> Actually, the Y2K problem is caused by technical folks (typically not well
>> rounded) who never dreamed that the stuff they were doing would still be
>> in use at the millennium.  It's also caused by shortsighted management
>> types who vetoed the technical types desire to "do it right" in favor of
>> cost, efficiency or time-to-market issues.
>>  

No, actually it was because back in the 50s and 60s computer programmers
where free and computers where expensive, so the companies got their
slaves to figure out how to save a few bits of memory.

Now it is the other way around---computers are free and programmers are
expensive! (...and where do you think that $2000 you just paid goes?)

