How did the year 2000 problem arise? We have found one of thegeneration of programmers that created this problem and given him thespace to tell us all about how it happened
I have read many articles on the 2000 date problem. All those I have read state that the problem is due to programmers wanting to save storage space. The fact is that it takes 2bytes to store an in...
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