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<blockquote style="position: relative; padding-left: 55px;"><section><a href="https://fosstodon.org/users/ovid/statuses/112348326309600556">Curtis "Ovid" Poe (he/him) (ovid@fosstodon.org)'s status on Monday, 29-Apr-2024 00:31:27 JST</a><a href="https://fosstodon.org/@ovid" title="ovid@fosstodon.org"><img src="https://gnusocial.jp/avatar/92241-48-20230126232001.webp" width="48" height="48" alt='Curtis "Ovid" Poe (he/him)' style="position: absolute; left: 0; top: 0;">Curtis "Ovid" Poe (he/him)</a><div><a href="https://wandering.shop/@cstross/112348062964008948" rel="in-reply-to">in reply to</a><ul><li></ul></div></section><article><p><a href="https://wandering.shop/@cstross">@cstross</a> As an ex-COBOL programmer who was knee-deep in the Y2K mess, one of the issues is that many of those old COBOL programs were compiled, but the source code was lost.</p><p>In some cases, corporations were worried COBOL vendors would disappear, so they created incompatible, in-house COBOL compilers, making the mess even worse!</p><p>Naturally, there were no tests to verify that the software functioned correctly ...</p></article><footer><a rel="bookmark" href="https://gnusocial.jp/conversation/3007705#notice-5972588">In conversation</a><time datetime="2024-04-29T00:31:27+09:00" title="Monday, 29-Apr-2024 00:31:27 JST">about a year ago</time> <span>from <span><a href="https://fosstodon.org/@ovid/112348326309600556" rel="external" title="Sent from fosstodon.org via ActivityPub">fosstodon.org</a></span></span><a href="https://fosstodon.org/@ovid/112348326309600556">permalink</a><h4>Attachments</h4><ol><li><article><header><div>No result found on File_thumbnail lookup.</div><h5><a href="http://lost.In/">http://lost.In/</a></h5><div></div></header><div></div><footer></footer></article></li></ol></footer></blockquote>

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Curtis "Ovid" Poe (he/him) (ovid@fosstodon.org)'s status on Monday, 29-Apr-2024 00:31:27 JSTCurtis "Ovid" Poe (he/him)
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@cstross As an ex-COBOL programmer who was knee-deep in the Y2K mess, one of the issues is that many of those old COBOL programs were compiled, but the source code was lost.
In some cases, corporations were worried COBOL vendors would disappear, so they created incompatible, in-house COBOL compilers, making the mess even worse!
Naturally, there were no tests to verify that the software functioned correctly ...
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