Can someone post the IEEE Y2K chair message to E.yourdon?

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If readers here did not see this yesterday, they missed the single most credible,disheartening,essays to date.

Mr. May from IEEE. If Linkmiester or Stan are able to post it. You must read the entire thing. Heavy sledding but it will knock your socks off.

-- D.B. (dciinc@aol.com), November 01, 1999

Answers

The posting is already online at:

http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/roleigh_martin/end_game_criti que.htm

The TB2000 thread on this is at:

http://greenspun.com/bboard/q-and-a-fetch-msg.tcl?msg_id=001fqh

If this HTML comes out messy, sorry.

Roleigh Martin

-- Roleigh Martin (
marti124@tc.umn), November 01, 1999.


I don't remember if anybody asked this question on the original link and follow-up thread started by Roleigh, but has Mr. Way confirmed that he wrote this? This is in my opinion a newsworthy event, given the source.

Don't misunderstand me - I have great respect for the integrity of Roleigh, but I'd like to know more information about how the document came about, from Mr. Way himself preferably. Have any journalists followed up? The document seems to have been in circulation for at least a couple of weeks. How come it was only released now?

Sorry, but Y2K is too serious to take without some kind of corroborative follow up to such an apparently disturbing document from such a credible source.

-- ? (hmmm@crikey.com), November 01, 1999.


"Sorry, but Y2K is too serious to take without some kind of corroborative follow up to such an apparently disturbing document from such a credible source."

I think if that advice had been followed more frequently there wouldn't be so much confusion on this whole Y2K issue.

Truly, words to live by.

-- (yes@I.agree), November 01, 1999.


From: Y2K, ` la Carte by Dancr (pic), near Monterey, California

It seems pretty clear that Mr. Way did author the piece, since Ed Yourdon acknowledges having received an advance copy. While it is significant that another prominent person has such a pessimistic assessment, there doesn't seem to be any reason to rush to publicize it until we've had a chance to discuss it among ourselves.

-- Dancr (addy.available@my.webpage), November 02, 1999.


Mr.Way states that the ONLY way for there to be a date problem is in a comparison of two dates straddling the 'boundery'. Um....that is not correct. I stopped reading at that point (the first point). I'm sure he makes a fine chairman of a technical committee, but I don't think he knows software very well.

-- ..- (dit@dot.dash), November 03, 1999.


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