From: Toby Speight Newsgroups: alt.humor.best-of-usenet Subject: [comp.emacs] y2k issues in Emacs Date: 9 Mar 1998 09:36:00 -0700 Subject: Re: y2k issues in Emacs From: Lowell Gilbert Newsgroups: comp.emacs Erik Naggum writes: > this looks like a hysteric reaction. Oh, what the heck. Erik went to all that effort to continue the discussion civilly, but I'm going to go right ahead and turn this into a flame. Looks like a *clueless* reaction to me. Even leaving aside the fact that she (Carol Rivera) said that the code she was worried about would *crash* in the year 2000 (which is distinctly different from, and in this context *far* worse than, producing wrong results), she was using a bug-finding toolkit without any clue how to interpret the results. I wonder if *I* can get in on this lucrative "Y2K bug toolkit" marketplace. Given your corporation's multibillion-dollar exposure on the Y2K problem, spending a mere percent or so of that on my tool would be only prudent. Here it is... #!/bin/sh echo "Following problems found:" grep -n 1900 $* Please contact me by e-mail for information on where to send your payment. Remember, this is complicated "computer" related stuff, so using your own brain on the matter is ill-advised. Just trust us geek experts. Be well. Lowell P.S. The above was "satire." If this confuses you, perhaps you should look the word up in a dictionary. If you're still confused, it's probably just *bad* satire.