250
cobol post (comp.lain.la)
submitted 9 months ago by to c/programmer_humor@programming.dev
20 comments fedilink hide all child comments
 

COBOL joke from 1999:

A COBOL programmer, tired of all the extra work and chaos caused by the impending Y2K bug, decides to have himself cryogenically frozen for a year so he can skip all of it.

He gets himself frozen, and eventually is woken up when several scientists open his cryo-pod.

"Did I sleep through Y2K? Is it the year 2000?", he asks.

The scientists nervously look at each other. Finally, one of them says "Actually, it's the year 9999. We hear you know COBOL."

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[–] 8 points 9 months ago* (1 child)

Bro he posted it by accident because same guy posting this thing twice in less than a minute is obviously a mistake(probably client issue)

I originally told to delete this one because this has less upvotes, but now since there are more comments here, deleting other one might be better

  • permalink
  • fedilink
  • source
  • parent
  • hideshow 1 child comment
    •
  • [–] 1 point 9 months ago

    I had the exact same thing happen to me. My client posted something 4 times in the same community. I got banned for it, on the charge of being a bot. I contacted the mods and luckily they were understanding and eventually unbanned me.

  • permalink
  • fedilink
  • source
  • parent