I worked on projects where saving a couple of bytes in a character 
string ended up in hardware/storage savings figures in the Millions of 
dollars.  The Y2K problem was mostly the result of that kind of analysis. 

Bruce Dayton wrote:
> Kind of reminds me of the Y2K problem - the older programmers thought
> they wouldn't need to deal with it, so didn't...until...
>
> Since you know you are going to end up with the problem, why not just
> come up with a solution now, instead of having to go back and fix it
> later?  The solutions aren't really too tough.
>
>   


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