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So Skynet was written in COBOL. Explains why it was so angry, I guess.
by thomascgalvin 7y ago
So Skynet was written in COBOL. Explains why it was so angry, I guess.
- sdegutis 7y agoHN comments rarely make me laugh out loud, thank you :)
- Igelau 7y agoThey had to send the Terminator back in time to circumvent Y2K
- aforwardslash 7y agoIf you're looking for a young guy working in cobol in the y2k vicinity, that was me (19 at the time). not only I added 2 more digits to some microfocus app, I also saved the world :) My first professional gig was with cobol, and it was almost cool.
- ArnieApproves 7y agoWe salute you. Thanks for saving the world; to all greater y2k saveaists. What an unseen fix, you guys, all you y2k fixers, I mean, really did it. Thanks man(s). man s might also mean women etc whatever all the new forms of people and identities goes on. We salute everyone.
- Igelau 7y agoI hope that's on your resume as "Heroic Engineer - Saves the world every day by staving off Y2K" Thanks for sharing. Cool to hear from someone who was actually working on that.
- agumonkey 7y agoSomeone calls Dyson, there's a shortage of COBOL experts I've heard
- JdeBP 7y agoMicrosoft COBOL-80, specifically, per the magazine article.