Programmers are not agreed on much regarding y2k, except for these two points: (1) there is no silver bullet solution; (2) the deadline cannot be postponed.
I have set up this category so that when I locate relevant opinions by y2k programmers on the extent of the y2k problem or the difficulties of correcting it, I can post them. I find postings on the Web. Also, I receive e-mail messages from time to time. I will post them if they are coherent and written in English rather than techie. This category is for programmers who wish to communicate with non-programmers.
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03-Jan-97 |
A Frustrated Programmer Warns: No Easy Fix |
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09-Jul-97 |
Nothing to It! No Threat! No Problem! |
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16-Jul-97 |
A Programmer Describes Why His Company Won't Make It |
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17-Jul-97 |
Yourdon: Should Programmers Quit and Leave Town in 1999? |
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19-Jul-97 |
Senior American Programmer Writes Y2K Survival Book |
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28-Jul-97 |
Programmer Warns: Prepare for Worst-Case Scenario |
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30-Jul-97 |
Programmer Challenges the Happy-Face Scenarios |
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30-Jul-97 |
38 Programmers Assess the Threat: Serious |
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21-Aug-97 |
Revenge of the Codeheads |
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22-Sep-97 |
Y2K Is All a Big Scam, Says Man Who Offers to Fix Y2K Problems |
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22-Sep-97 |
Y2K Is Not a Scam, Says Software Programmer |
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29-Sep-97 |
Programmer Admits to Burnout: Management Resists Y2K |
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01-Oct-97 |
How Did This Happen? A Programmer Explains |
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03-Oct-97 |
PC Specialist says We're Not Beyond the Awareness Phase |
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03-Oct-97 |
The Task's Complexity Described |
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04-Oct-97 |
Y2K Is for Snake Oil Salesmen, Says Ex-Programmer |
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08-Oct-97 |
Horror Story from a Canadian Programmer |
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09-Oct-97 |
Why the Y2K Problem May Not Get Fixed |
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13-Oct-97 |
Yourdon: Evidence That Large Projects Come in Late |
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19-Nov-97 |
Stolen Software Will Push Bad Data into Many Systems |
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19-Nov-97 |
New York City Will Be Like Beirut -- Yourdon |
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24-Nov-97 |
30 Years of Deliberate Neglect |
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01-Dec-97 |
90% of Programming Goes to Maintenance |
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02-Dec-97 |
Cory Hamasaki on the Great Turnaround: Geeks Over Managers |
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29-Dec-97 |
You Can't Overestimate Y2K's Effects |
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31-Dec-97 |
A Minor Problem, Says Programmer |
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05-Jan-98 |
Problems? Yes. Disaster? Maybe Not |
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07-Jan-98 |
Completion: The Last 10% of the Repair May Kill Your System |
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17-Jan-98 |
Yourdon Warns: It's Time for a Moratorium |
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05-Feb-98 |
Senior Programmers Are Pessimistic |
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16-Feb-98 |
No Documentation, Warns Programmer |
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20-Feb-98 |
Warning from a Y2K Repair Trainer: Canada Is Way Behind |
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20-Feb-98 |
An Unemployed Programmer Reminisces: A Y2K Warning in 1974 |
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23-Feb-98 |
Calvinistic Programmer Says He Isn't Sure, But God Is |
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02-Mar-98 |
Ed Yourdon Replies to a Critic |
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11-Mar-98 |
Programmer Says Don't Panic by Increasing Your Cash Reserves |
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12-Mar-98 |
Hamasaki Says It Could Get Really Bad: Total, Permanent Breakdown |
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21-Mar-98 |
Yourdon: The Problem Is Systemic -- the Asian Flu Analogy |
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07-Apr-98 |
90% Say Y2K Is a Crisis |
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07-Apr-98 |
The Mind-Numbing Agony of Correcting a 900,000-Line Program |
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07-Apr-98 |
When the Programmers Flee, Y2K Repairs Will Cease |
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23-Apr-98 |
Banking Programmer Sings the Blues |
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24-Apr-98 |
Programmer Says Rotary Clubs Can Solve Y2K's Worst Effects |
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30-Apr-98 |
Dallas Programmer Makes Plans for Bugging Out |
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01-May-98 |
Programmers Didn't Create Y2K Problem, Says Amdahl |
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01-May-98 |
IBM Symposium: Programmers Describe Their Problems |
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07-May-98 |
Water in Colorado Springs |
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08-May-98 |
Protecting Your Family Is a Righteous Thing to Do |
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12-May-98 |
Why Programmers Can't Fix It |
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14-May-98 |
Taking Care of Your Family Comes First |
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28-May-98 |
Yourdon Warns of Waiting Until 2000 to Fix Systems |
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30-May-98 |
We Need Faith in Ourselves, Not in God |
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03-Jun-98 |
Hamasaki's Trip Wires |
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09-Jun-98 |
Yourdon on Denial |