Ooooh, I see. TIL, thanks! So, what kinds of things would actually go wrong? "Bits of proprietary software yelling at each other in non-standard-ese"? Crazy sc

Ooooh, I see. TIL, thanks! So, what kinds of things would actually go wrong? "Bits of proprietary software yelling at each other in non-standard-ese"? Crazy scripting fixing frequent human mistakes? Or...? I'm very fascinated with this sort of thing given it's treated like such an impermeable brick wall.