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[minerve] 07/1/2019 17:27

Shy Tott

You are wrong. In the 70s and 80s programmers wrote efficient code because they had not much memory and processing power available. For this reason, many programmers intimately new the hardware that the software ran on. Compiling was only half the story and many programmers augmented that with assembly language and even machine code. For example, a chess program was written in 1K of memory! Try and do that today!
Because of this scarcity of HARDWARE not enough resource was given to date storage - hence Y2K problems.

Today, it is a mess. To write a program on a computer you need to run software using countless application programming interfaces and class libraries.

[shy tott] 07/1/2019 17:10

Minerve 241737

No, I'm afraid you are wrong. Why did programmers use only 2 characters for the date ..... well, in the 70s and early 80s programmers ran riot and did what they liked. There was no software reliability checks, no third party tssting, no programming techniques, no thoughts for maintenance .... all those things came later. Google Dijkstra.The problem in 1999 was that no one knew if any of the embedded software in any systems contained the old bodged software written before any software reliability techniques.

You can shout and swear and try to discredit that which is correct, but that is madness. I don't care what you did in the past, you are completely wrong on this topic. Furthermore, I thought the y2k problem was very well known, and I am apparently wrong to think that, so thanks, I've learnt something today.

[mr.elbee] 07/1/2019 16:27

quite right too...one must have some standards.

[mr.elbee] 07/1/2019 16:26

give me another lifetime and no sense of shame and you're on.

[poikka] 07/1/2019 16:19

Re stabbing - lady on train interviewed said, "we're not used to that sort of thing in Surrey".

[yump] 07/1/2019 16:14

Become an MP then and change it.

[mr.elbee] 07/1/2019 16:07

Yes that is the one certain result from this Brexit shambles.

[action] 07/1/2019 16:02

Can not trust any party to look after UK interest. All are playing political game for their own gain.

[tradejunkie2] 07/1/2019 16:00

LG CES 2019 press conference is now LIVE !

[ladeside] 07/1/2019 15:17

STAY & GREAT TRADE DEALS WITH EVERYONE

[minerve] 07/1/2019 14:57

financeguru 7 Jan '19 - 14:55 - 241735 of 241735 (Filtered)

He has nothing to offer apart from a headache.

[xxxxxy] 07/1/2019 14:57

LEAVE and WTO

[diku] 07/1/2019 14:22

Could be best of 5!!...





Poikka
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Looks like I'm going to be filtered yet again by Minerve - 3rd time lucky?

[k38] 07/1/2019 14:18

The European population is f# up. Say no to Brussels bureaucracy!!

[stonedyou] 07/1/2019 14:11

The people will at last be listened to, says FREDERICK FORSYTH

IT IS always pleasant to draw a bow at a venture and later observe the arrow has hit the target gold.



Some weeks ago as the pro-EU fear campaign hotted up I pointed out that there was

nothing much wrong with trading worldwide along World Trade Organisation (WTO)

lines and that the No Deal intended panic was based on a huge lie. Now it seems

more and more pundits and opinion-formers are coming to the same view. The BBC,

which is now a bought-and-paid-for propaganda organisation, sticks to its

passionate pro-EU line. But several newspapers have had a big rethink.


And the May Government is still lying to us in order to rally support for the

scuttle the lady brought back from her shuttles to Brussels for two wasted years.

For one thing it has still not published the full legal opinion of Attorney

General Sir Geoffrey Cox on the true terms concealed inside those 585 pages of

lawyer-speak. Why not? If the so-called Settlement which Mrs May urges Parliament

to endorse was truly a success she would have everything to gain from full

disclosure. The reason for the secrecy is that it is a total failure in which she

conceded everything of value.

Then there is Caroline Bell. Who she? Well, a pseudonym actually. A senior civil

servant who has taken on herself to reveal that in truth plans to work the WTO

trading system to our advantage are hugely developed and almost ready to go.

Meaning NO DEAL is a fraud.

In a free country you'd think that anyone with experience of a problem would be

allowed to write about it under their own name. So why must she hide? To save her

career from ruin, it would seem. The only logical explanation is that, from deep

inside the establishment she fears she would be ruined if the high and the mighty

discovered that one of their own had actually broken cover and told us the truth.

[k38] 07/1/2019 14:09

All female yellow vest protest in France now is on.. (RT news)

[shy tott] 07/1/2019 13:23

'That's perhaps because you don't know about computer architecture and how it stores data including dates and date ranges. Google it.'

Ah I see, no explanation at all.

Fyi, y2k was nothing to do with hardware, the hardware architecture, the byte size, or exclusively simulators.

It was amost purely software, usually old, which only allowed 2 characters for the date, hence the possible problems going past 99.

i hope this helps. I thought everyone knew that.

[xxxxxy] 07/1/2019 13:03

DITCH the WITCH

[xxxxxy] 07/1/2019 13:02

EUSSR is a SCAM
LEAVE and WTO

And save 39 billion ish

[financeguru] 07/1/2019 13:02

mini man you are a legend in your own mind! Thank the lord that red scum like you are not listened to very much.

[stonedyou] 07/1/2019 12:36

Youths have killed innocent other youths for their trainers, the way they look,

dress, dance, supporting the wrong football team etc etc

Excuses are just that!! or certain types creating jobs for themselves "mental

health issues" practitioners.....