>
> Two questions. 1) Was this date package written in Ada? And 2) If it
was
> written in Ada, how much work did it take to fix? I suspect that there
may
> have been other Year 2K problems in Ada. However, the ease of
maintaining
> Ada made the effort to repair minimal. Minimal effort projects are
seldom
> reported because they do not change the budget. Actually, the Year 2K
> problem is NOT the disease. If Year 2K problem is significant, it is a
> symptom of poorly engineered software.
>
Fixing a Y2K problem in a program is nominally no different from fixing
any other problem you know the program has. The REAL Y2K problem is
knowing whether or not you have a problem that needs fixing.
--Michael Pickett--