i meant a minimum of 10 years, not a maximum.
--- Eben King <eben1@tampabay.rr.com> wrote:
> On Fri, 11 Mar 2005, perthie wrote:
>
> > code such as the above is only a problem in environments where the
> code
> > must be *guarenteed* to work or must be maintainable 10 years after
> its
> > written. i sincerly hope the above program needs no maintenance in
> > 2015. :)
>
> COBOL programmers in the 1970s thought their code would have been
> long gone
> by 2000. They were wrong too.
>
> --
> I firmly believed we should not march into Baghdad ...To occupy Iraq
> would
> instantly shatter our coalition, turning the whole Arab world against
> us and
> make a broken tyrant, into a latter-day Arab hero assigning young
> soldiers
> to a fruitless hunt for a securely entrenched dictator [.] - George
> Bush Sr.
>
>
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