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Currently, a worldwide effort is underway to uncover the calendar-related programs embedded in our legacy software. When these applications were first coded, had programmers rigorously and repeatedly questioned how their code handled date validity, the Year 2000 problem-the largest crisis the information technology industry has yet faced-could have been greatly mitigated. Most code lasts for longer than its original programmers anticipated, and sometimes even outlives successive generations of hardware and operating systems. Not surprisingly, when this legacy code is ported to a new environment, inherited solutions cause new problems. The author suggests several techniques for avoiding or resolving these issues
Published in:
Software, IEEE
(Volume:14
,
Issue:
5
)
Date of Publication: Sep/Oct 1997
- Page(s):
- 19 - 21
- ISSN :
- 0740-7459
- INSPEC Accession Number:
- 5700430
- Digital Object Identifier :
- 10.1109/52.605925
- Product Type:
- Journals & Magazines
- Date of Current Version :
- 06 August 2002
- Issue Date :
- Sep/Oct 1997
- Sponsored by :
- IEEE Computer Society
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