On 2016-01-29 08:10, Edward Leafe wrote:
On Jan 28, 2016, at 7:53 PM,
[email protected] wrote:
Sad news indeed but he did make a big mistake with his predictions
about the severity of the Y2K problem despite selling a lot of books
about it!
He laughed all the way to the bank I'm sure about the Y2K work.
You think it was a hoax? IMO, it was a very critical warning that
every major company around the globe examined and agreed with, and
then invested a lot of money in fixing. The only reason that those
things didn't happen is because of the advance warning by people like
Yourdon. There were many problems in systems that weren't fixed, such
as people getting video rental bills in the thousands because they had
rented a VHS tape for 100 years, but because they weren't the type of
systems that people's lives depended on, they were relatively simple
to remedy manually. The important systems had already been fixed.
No, not thinking it was a hoax at all. I'm just saying lots of folks
loved the billable hours. If I could have, I would have too.
Unfortunately, I was an employee at the time so I got the same paycheck
regardless.
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