Comment Side topic: Is Slashdot y2k compliant (Score 1) 221
Yes, I agree, but anywhere I see 99 sets the alarm bells going.
It's certainly quite plausible in the context of Slashdot that it's just a tag. The trouble with using 2 digit year tags is that someone somewhere will make a coding goof, even if it's not the original author. Eg, what if one of the perl libraries involved converts 2000 into 100 rather than 00, and some other piece of code relies on the tag being 2 characters (could be ok if it just takes the last 2 characters of the conversion).
perl is y2k safe, and 99 may just be a tag, but there is still space in there for something to get upset/confused.
It's certainly quite plausible in the context of Slashdot that it's just a tag. The trouble with using 2 digit year tags is that someone somewhere will make a coding goof, even if it's not the original author. Eg, what if one of the perl libraries involved converts 2000 into 100 rather than 00, and some other piece of code relies on the tag being 2 characters (could be ok if it just takes the last 2 characters of the conversion).
perl is y2k safe, and 99 may just be a tag, but there is still space in there for something to get upset/confused.
