🚀 go-pugleaf

David McReynolds wrote:
 > 
 > The last place I worked had a beautiful solution.  It was a
 > airline company and they have this phobia about key strokes
 > and the gate agents and reservationist that would have to type
 > them  The year 2000 is not a problem for them since the year
 > is never entered in any of their transactions.  Therefore, when
 > you make that reservation for March 3rd, the system is clueless
 > as to the year.
 > 
 > Programmers there have had to hack and cludge and fudge code for
 > years to get it to work properly.  The woman I worked with said
 > she only fixed her stuff to run for dates greater than 1950 and
 > less than 2000.  I really do not think they understand what's
 > going to happen to their big bad MVS system in 2000.
 > 
 > Just so no one gets confused, that first sentence is sarcasm.
 > 
 > Dave

In one of last year's BYTE issues (December?), there was an article
on "How Software Doesn't Work", in which an airline's IS manager said
that there were parts of the reservation system written about 30 years
ago that NO-ONE now understands. There was an trial of writing some 
reservation software from the ground up, but was abandoned after much
fruitless expense.

It sounds like if you can kludge it once, you night be able to 
kludge it again. Better than nothing. 

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