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From: jxh@cup.portal.com (Jim - Hickstein)
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Subject: Re: Will Your SW Make it to the year 2000?
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Date: 11 Jul 89 02:42:21 GMT
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>You have the century years backwards!  1700, 1800, and 1900 were NOT leap
>years, but 2000 will be.  No flame, just a warning:  check this algorithm
>BEFORE you code it into something that might be around for very long.
                                        ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

Here is today's Sermon:       :-)

The only assumption that can be made about the life of ANY program,
ESPECIALLY those little, throw-away things you dash off in a moment of
crisis, is this: SOFTWARE IS PERMANENT.  Almost certainly, some of your software
will outlive you; certainly some of it will outlive your ability to
explain it.  You cannot know, a priori, what software this will turn out to be.

Do prosperity a favor: design for permanence.  You may achieve
it in spite of yourself.

-Jim Hickstein
jxh@cup.portal.com
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