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echo: foxpro
to: GILLES BEAUREGARD
from: GERRY DANEN
date: 1996-12-26 14:42:00
subject: YEAR 2000

GB>  A bug, it's a bug. When you are force to REWRITE MUST of the application
GB>  because of a NOT PLAN EVENT, who can predict their is a new
GB>  century in 3 years from now after all, IT'S A BUG.
I can predict there's going to be a new century 3 years from now, so I
plan for it now.  Why can't YOU do the same thing?
GB>  rl> Call it "bug" if you insist.  Nevertheless, your
GB>  rl> existing Foxpro applications can be made Y2K-compliant
GB>  rl> with comparatively little reworking, as outlined
Exactly!
GB>  Reworking. When you are force to reworke your job because of
GB>  a NOT PLAN EVENT, you or the application was a bug.
If you did not plan for a 4-digit year in your applications, you did not
plan them properly.  Go back and fix your oversight.
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