Quote: Y2K happened because data processing implemented existing practices w/o date abstractions

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The Y2K problem came about from two main … [p. 209] Businesses were using the two-digit shortcut long … The earliest data processing applications merely automated existing … [But] there should have been an abstraction of … 53: Abstractions Live Longer than Details. Does "seeing … makes active use of an abstraction of DATEs. …   Google-1   Google-2

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