re: #342 oldegeezr

It was COBOL not FORTRAN that caused the year 2000, kerfuffle…correct…?

Whatever happened to all those “punch cards”…if they’d all been recycled back in the fifties, we wouldn’t have to cut any more trees today.

The year 2000 problems was not related to any certain software language. It was in regards to any software that was not able to handle a four digit year.

In some cases, that limit (a two digit date) was based on restrictions of the computer programming language, sometimes it was the cause of the way a programmer developed the software, only allowing two digit dates.

it was a little of both, not one or the other.