[Info-vax] The Gender Fluid IT Crisis

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In article <olj23d$ebf$1 at gioia.aioe.org>, =?UTF-8?Q?Arne_Vajh=c3=b8j?= <arne at vajhoej.dk> writes:
>On 7/29/2017 4:25 PM, seasoned_geek wrote:
>> Not so much pitching my blog as pointing out the current IT crisis
>> which is bigger than Y2K ever was. Used to be quite a few IT management
>> types here.
>> 
>> http://www.logikalsolutions.com/wordpress/information-technology/the-gender-fluid-it-crisis/
>
><quote>
>IT workers put in millions and millions of hours fixing things 
>incompetent management was too greedy to fix.
></quote>
>
>Guess what. In most companies the IT workers do what management tell
>them and Y2K issues got fixed because management told iT workers
>to fix them.
>
><quote>
>For COBOL programmers with extensive copylibs this won’t be much of a 
>problem. COBOL never had the concept of a boolean, or at least it didn’t 
>in the early standards versions. All you had was PIC X or 9 and a bunch 
>of 88 levels.
>....
>You poor bastards using a database though. How many of you have that 
>stored in a boolean column? How many stored procedures are you going to 
>have to try and find both in production and development? Not just in the 
>database, but where they are actually called, tracking back to fix every 
>data type along the way?
>
>You poor bastards using BASIC, FORTRAN or some other language where some 
>fool decided bit-flags should be used to store boolean values. That’s 
>all over your system. You cannot even hope to search by name through the 
>code because not everyone will have used the named mask.
></quote>
>
>Crap.
>
>Practically no one use BOOLEAN for storing sex even if that
>data type is available. BOOLEAN is for storing TRUE or FALSE
>not anything with two values.

Sex is and has always been boolean.  

Yes -- let's have sex now!
No -- let's wait until we're alone.

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