At 10:43 2016-01-29, Ted Roche <[email protected]> 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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