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From: Mr.Foster_Freeze@Cryogen.com (Frosty)
Newsgroups: alt.hackers
Subject: Two Digits for a Date
Date: Thu, 14 May 1998 15:28:02 GMT
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> Subject:        Two Digits for a Date
>
> Two Digits for a Date
> (to the tune of "Gilligan's Island," more or less)
>      Just sit right back and you'll hear a tale
>      Of the doom that is our fate.
>      That started when our Programmers used
>      Two digits for a date.
>      Two digits for a date.
>      Main memory was smaller then;
>      Hard disks were smaller, too.
>      "Four digits are extravagant,
>      So let's get by with two.
>      So let's get by with two."
>      "This works through 1999."
>      The programmers did say.
>      "Unless we rewrite before that
>      It all will go away.
>      It all will go away."
>      But Management had not a clue;
>      "It works fine now, you bet!
>      A rewrite is a straight expense;
>      We won't do it just yet.
>      We won't do it just yet."
>      Now when 2000 rolls around
>      It all goes straight to hell.
>      For zero's less than ninety-nine,
>      As anyone can tell.
>      As anyone can tell.
>      The mail won't bring your pension check
>      It won't be sent to you
>      When you're no longer sixty-eight,
>      But minus thirty-two.
>      But minus thirty-two.
>      The problems we're about to face
>      Are frightening, for sure.
>      And reading every line of code's
>      The only certain cure.
>      The only certain cure.
> [key Change, big finish]
>      There's not much time,
>      There's too much code.
>      (And COBOL coders, few)
>      When the century is finished with,
>      We may be finished, too.
>      We may be finished, too.
>      Eight thousand years from now I hope
>      That things weren't left too late
>      And people aren't then lamenting
>      Four digits for a date.
>      Four digits for a date.
---
ObSillyHack

Tape a quarter to the arm then the stylus grinds right through them
nasty skips.

my 2¢

John Foster  
 
 Drinkin' and druggin' kill brain cells,
 but they just cull the herd...get rid of the weak ones.
 Eventually, you get down to two or three really KICK ASS brain cells
 which is all yunz need.

J.Toad