more Y2K problem stuff

[Christopher McMurry <cmcmurry@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Here's another very interesting site re the Y2K problem:

http://www.yourdon.com/books/fallback/fallbackhome.html

This is from the home page of Edward Yourdon, who is a very well-known
computer programming expert.  If you go down to your local Barnes &
Noble you can find a number of books by him in the computer section.
See below for a list.

The above website is a 1st/2nd draft of a book he's writing that's going
to be published next spring.  It's gives a detailed viewpoint of all of
the Y2K problems and their possible ramifications (and some are quite
scary).

And the thing that's disturbing is that this guy is no lunatic fringe
weird-o.  He's very well-respected in the information technology world
(at least as far as I know! :)  ).

Chris

Here's some of the books he's written:

Time Bomb 2000: how the year-2000 software crisis will
   affect you, with Jennifer Yourdon (to be published in
   early 1998 by Prentice Hall). The first draft is available
   for browsing.

   Death March (Prentice-Hall, 1997)

   Case Studies in Object-Oriented Analysis and Design,
   with Carl Argila (Prentice-Hall, 1996).

   The Rise and Resurrection of the American
   Programmer. (Prentice Hall, 1996).

   Mainstream Objects with Katharine Whitehead, Jim
   Thomann, Karin Oppel, and Peter Nevermann
   (Prentice-Hall, 1995)

   Object-Oriented Systems Development: An Integrated
   Approach (Prentice Hall, 1994).

   Decline and Fall of the American Programmer (Prentice
   Hall, 1992)

   Object-Oriented Design, with Peter Coad (Prentice Hall,
   1991).

   Object-Oriented Analysis, 2nd ed., with Peter Coad,
   (Prentice Hall, 1990).

   Modern Structured Analysis (Prentice Hall, 1989).

   Structured Walkthroughs, 4th ed.(Prentice Hall, 1989).

   Managing the Structured Techniques, 4th ed. (Prentice
   Hall, 1989).

   Managing the System Life Cycle, 2nd ed.(Prentice Hall,
   1988).

   Classics in Software Engineering (Prentice Hall, 1979).
   (Out of print.)

   Structured Design, with Larry L. Constantine (Prentice
   Hall, 1979).

   Learning to Program in Structured COBOL, Part II, with
   Timothy R. Lister (Prentice Hall, 1978)

   Learning to Program in Structured COBOL, Part I and II,
   with C. Gane and T. Sarson and T. Lister (Prentice Hall,
   1976).

   Techniques of Program Structure and Design (Prentice
   Hall, 1975).

   Design of On-Line Computer Systems (Prentice Hall,
   1972). (Out of print.)

   Real-Time Systems Design (Information & Systems
   Press, 1967). (Out of print.)

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