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Y2K Humor (fluff)
Mark Arend (arend@CENTURYINTER.NET)
Wed, 18 Nov 1998 08:44:37 -0600
Forwarded from a library computer List I subscribe to...
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>TWO DIGITS FOR A DATE
>(sung to the theme music from "Gilligan's Island" (more or less))
>
>Just sit right back and you'll hear a tale
>Of the doom that is our fate.
>That started when programmers used
>Two digits for a date.
>Two digits for a date.
>
>Main memory was smaller then;
>Hard disks were smaller, too.
>"Four digits are extravagent,
>So let's get by with two.
>So let's get by with two."
>
>"This works through 1999,"
>The programmers did say.
>"Unless we rewrite before that
>It all will go away.
>It all will go away."
>
>But management had not a clue:
>"It works fine now, you bet!
>A rewrite is a straight expense;
>We won't do it just yet.
>We won't do it just yet."
>
>Now when 2000 rolls around
>It all goes straight to hell,
>For zero's less than ninety-nine,
>As anyone can tell.
>As anyone can tell.
>
>The mail won't bring your pension check
>It won't be sent to you,
>When you're no longer sixty-eight,
>But minus thirty-two.
>But minus thirty-two.
>
>The problems we're about to face
>Are frightening for sure.
>And reading every line of code's
>The only certain cure.
>The only certain cure.
>
>There's not much time,
>There's too much code.
>(And Cobol-coders, few)
>When the century is finished with
>We may be finished, too.
>We may be finished, too.
>
>Eight thousand years from now, I hope
>That things weren't left too late,
>And people aren't then lamenting
>Four digits for a date.
>Four digits for a date.
>
>source unknown
>
>
Mark W. Arend
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