Programming QuotesJul 20, 2025

Rarely is anyone thanked for the work they did to prevent the disaster that didn't happen.

— Mikko Hypponen

#quality #security

Show threadGalbinus CaeliJul 20, 2025
@programming_quotes See "Y2K" for examples. A hell of a lot of people worked damn hard to make that a non-event.
Show threadBytebro 🇬🇧 🇺🇦 🇬🇱

@GalbinusCaeli

2038. Maybe, everyone on the planet will be using a 64-bit time_t by then. Who knows?

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Jul 20, 2025 at 6:23pmWeb
Show threadGalbinus CaeliJul 20, 2025
@bytebro I plan to continue my effort to ensure that no one remembers that I ever programmed in COBOL.
Show threadBytebro 🇬🇧 🇺🇦 🇬🇱Jul 20, 2025

@GalbinusCaeli

Don't knock it - at my former employers, all the file formats that we receive 'from the business' as opposed to 'from clients' are specified as COBOL file layouts - the back end is still running some flavour of VMS.

Nicely understandable file layouts, as long as one does NOT have to use COBOL to read the feckers.

Show threadGalbinus CaeliJul 20, 2025
@bytebro I haven't touched COBOL since I left fintech in 2008. (Guess why.)