From: andy@... (Andrew Hunt)
Date: 2001-07-17T12:14:53+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:17959] Re: Old chestnut: invariants, pre/post conditions

On Sat, 14 Jul 2001 01:35:37 +0900, hal9000@hypermetrics.com 
<hal9000@hypermetrics.com> wrote:
> > > On Thu, 12 Jul 2001, Andrew Hunt wrote:
> > Time is the fire in which we burn...
> 
> Ah, Dr. Sorin, we meet again.

But of course :-)

> Andy, your comments about COBOL and Java were
> hilarious yet depressing.

It's true!  Just add up how much shelf space the
full Java API's (J2EE) take up.  If you consider
the velocity with which these API's appear, we'll
soon be buried under them just like Pompeii :-)

> Reminds me of the joke about the programmer
> who had himself frozen... they woke him up
> and he was surrounded by advanced beings in
> the year 9999 who told him, "We're having a
> Y10K problem... and we understand that you
> know COBOL..."

The more things change...

/\ndy