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From: jimb@athertn.Atherton.COM (Jim Burke)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: Will Your SW Make it to the year 2000?
Message-ID: <5577@athertn.Atherton.COM>
Date: 27 Jun 89 17:07:47 GMT
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Reply-To: jimb@athertn.UUCP (Jim Burke)
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>>> In article <4342@druhi.ATT.COM> terrell@druhi.ATT.COM (TerrellE) writes:
>>>>Will your software make it into the 21st century?  Does it cope with the
>>>>Gregorian calendar reform of the 16th century?


Why all the flap???   Given the giant leaps in software in the last ten
years (when P.C.'s didn't even exists) does anyone really think that software
released in 1989 will be relavent at the turn of the century?  I don't know
of anyone that projects that kind of life cycle for their product.  It is
a nice consideration to make, but I wouldn't lose any sleep over it.  By
2000 we will all be programming neural networks, and all human interface will
be verbal and optical.  Ten plus years is an eternity in this business.  Now,
when we get to 1996 or 1997 I might be inclined to think about the issue a
little more...


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