On Thu, Jan 28, 2016 at 3:38 AM, Dave Crozier DaveC@flexipol.co.uk wrote:
Sad news indeed but he did make a big mistake with his predictions about the severity of the Y2K problem despite selling a lot of books about it!
Either that or he helped raise the alarm (or hysteria, depending on your viewpoint) that resulting in the huge crash programs that kept airplanes from falling from the skies, the financial industry from grinding to a halt, and the end of the world as we know it. I suspect the truth is somewhere in the middle. We really don't know what would have happened if we didn't. I know I billed a lot of hours in the time leading up to 12/31/1999.
"The Rise and Fall of the American Programmer" wasn't 100% accurate, either. Hence, "The Death and Resurrection...'
Making predictions is hard, especially about the future...