A message for our less creative programmers

Mon, 26 May 2003 16:03:00 -0400
/technology

Did you make a killing fixing decades old COBOL programs for Y2K? Were you planning to live off the cash, build up your Unix and C skills just in time for the fun that 2038 is sure to bring?

Well, why wait until then?! From 2005 :

… the Uniform Code Council (UCC) will no longer support the UPC-12 barcode standard that is almost universally used in North America. This is because the UCC, which controls company identification numbers that are part of the UPC-12 symbology is running out of numbers to fit in the 12-digit format.

The UCC has issued a joint recommendation with its European and Japanese counterparts to fix the problem using a 14-digit standard of the same symbology.

Quick, you still have time to swat up on Point of Sales systems!

via Adam Curry