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Date: Tue, 17 Dec 2013 11:21:07 -0500
Subject: Re: Experiences/guidance on teaching Python as a first programming language
From: Larry Martell <larry.martell@gmail.com>
To: Mark Lawrence <breamoreboy@yahoo.co.uk>
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On Tue, Dec 17, 2013 at 10:35 AM, Mark Lawrence <breamoreboy@yahoo.co.uk> wrote:
> I was in charge of the team at work that had to make all code Y2K compliant.
> I discovered the one bug that to my knowledge slipped through the net.  Four
> years later back at the same place on contract I fixed the fix!!!

>From around 1997 till 2000 all I did was fix Y2K bugs. I'm pretty sure
I got them all. For one client I fixed well over 200. After the new
year came and nothing broke, the owner of the company said "You made
such a big deal about this Y2K stuff, and it turned out not to be a
problem at all."