Ed Yourdon has died. A name that reverberated through much of my career.
http://www.i-programmer.info/news/82/9377.html
Not the sort of news that's welcome at any time, but especially as he
was a year younger than me!
AndyD
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Sad news indeed but he did make a big mistake with his predictions about the severity of the Y2K problem despite selling a lot of books about it!
Dave
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Ed Yourdon has died. A name that reverberated through much of my career.
http://www.i-programmer.info/news/82/9377.html
Not the sort of news that's welcome at any time, but especially as he was a year younger than me!
AndyD
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I remember this person, but I could hardly tell anything useful from
his work. :)
On Thu, Jan 28, 2016 at 1:08 AM, AndyHC <jarndice@gmail.com> wrote:
> Ed Yourdon has died. A name that reverberated through much of my career.
> http://www.i-programmer.info/news/82/9377.html
> Not the sort of news that's welcome at any time, but especially as he was a
> year younger than me!
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On Thu, Jan 28, 2016 at 3:38 AM, Dave Crozier <DaveC@flexipol.co.uk> wrote:
> Sad news indeed but he did make a big mistake with his predictions about the severity of the Y2K problem despite selling a lot of books about it!
>
Either that or he helped raise the alarm (or hysteria, depending on
your viewpoint) that resulting in the huge crash programs that kept
airplanes from falling from the skies, the financial industry from
grinding to a halt, and the end of the world as we know it. I suspect
the truth is somewhere in the middle. We really don't know what would
have happened if we didn't. I know I billed a lot of hours in the time
leading up to 12/31/1999.
"The Rise and Fall of the American Programmer" wasn't 100% accurate,
either. Hence, "The Death and Resurrection...'
Making predictions is hard, especially about the future...
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Author: mbsoftwaresolutions@mbsoftwaresolutions.com
Posted: 2016-01-28 19:53:54 Link
On 2016-01-28 03:38, Dave Crozier wrote:
> Sad news indeed but he did make a big mistake with his predictions
> about the severity of the Y2K problem despite selling a lot of books
> about it!
He laughed all the way to the bank I'm sure about the Y2K work.
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On Jan 28, 2016, at 7:53 PM, mbsoftwaresolutions@mbsoftwaresolutions.com wrote:
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>> Sad news indeed but he did make a big mistake with his predictions
>> about the severity of the Y2K problem despite selling a lot of books
>> about it!
>
> He laughed all the way to the bank I'm sure about the Y2K work.
You think it was a hoax? IMO, it was a very critical warning that every major company around the globe examined and agreed with, and then invested a lot of money in fixing. The only reason that those things didn't happen is because of the advance warning by people like Yourdon. There were many problems in systems that weren't fixed, such as people getting video rental bills in the thousands because they had rented a VHS tape for 100 years, but because they weren't the type of systems that people's lives depended on, they were relatively simple to remedy manually. The important systems had already been fixed.
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> You think it was a hoax? IMO, it was a very critical warning that every major company around the globe examined and agreed with, and then invested a lot of money in fixing. The only reason that those things didn't happen is because of the advance warning by people like Yourdon. There were many problems in systems that weren't fixed, such as people getting video rental bills in the thousands because they had rented a VHS tape for 100 years, but because they weren't the type of systems that people's lives depended on, they were relatively simple to remedy manually. The important systems had already been fixed.
>
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At 00:38 2016-01-28, Dave Crozier <DaveC@Flexipol.co.uk> wrote:
>Sad news indeed but he did make a big mistake with his predictions
>about the severity of the Y2K problem despite selling a lot of books about it!
Did he? Maybe, he wanted to draw attention to the problem,
succeeded in that, and as a result, most of the problem was averted.
[snip]
Sincerely,
Gene Wirchenko
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Kent Beck's memorial is touching:
https://www.facebook.com/notes/kent-beck/memories-of-ed-yourdon/1093421947357335
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At 10:43 2016-01-29, Ted Roche <tedroche@gmail.com> wrote:
>Kent Beck's memorial is touching:
>
>https://www.facebook.com/notes/kent-beck/memories-of-ed-yourdon/1093421947357335
My favourite part is this paragraph:
The intimacy of his response to my first question gave me courage to
ask the question I really wanted to ask: "Why did you charge up the
hill carrying the Y2K flag? People are calling you Chicken Little.
Your reputation is gone." He replied that he hoped that would be the
outcome. If he did nothing, serious problems would ensue for
everyone. If he tried and succeeded (which he did), then his
reputation was a small price to pay. I was stunned. I had finally
built a reputation by that time and I couldn't imagine deliberately
sacrificing it.
and rather answers about Y2K as raised earlier in this thread.
Sincerely,
Gene Wirchenko
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