Jack Chen explains, "Every software engineer wants to be working at the bleeding edge, but tracking down Y2K problems is nothing more than a boring check of line after line of code written in out-of-date programming languages such as COBOL and FORTRAN."
「每個工程師都想學新東西，可是 Y2K 卻是一板一眼做苦工，重新研究早就過時的程式語言（COBOL、FORTRAN 等），替前人收拾爛攤子，毫無創新可言」，陳建國指出。