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submitted 9 months ago by to c/programmer_humor@programming.dev
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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."

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[–] 2 points 9 months ago

because the engineering is so awful

because the engineering was perfect and nobody has had to touch it since it was written

Seriously, that’s why bank stuff still has COBOL stacks. It’s worked perfectly for like half a century.

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