Y2K and Believing in Software Practice.

The article focuses on computer programmers and problems that arose at the turn of the 21st century. Many problems arose in computer software during Y2K. Some asynchronous transfer modes with a four-day, look-ahead feature refused service when the four-day period spanned the turn of the century. A videostore that charged for a video tape assumed to have been checked out in the 1900. A lot of highly visible professional people spoke out on the subject of the Y2K computer problem, although their technical knowledge of the field was basically subzero. It's a commonly acknowledged fact that some fields are burnout-prone. For example, people in the crime⁄corrections field tend to see everyone around them as a potential criminal. But there are many positive things to say about the state of software practice and there was a need to provide a platform from which those things could be said. And given the Y2K nonevent, it's time for the practical programmers who made the computer problems of Y2K fade into obscurity.