PhenomenalPancake@lemmy.world to Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world · edit-22 days agoWhat misconception are you tired of being spread?message-squaremessage-square276linkfedilinkarrow-up1123arrow-down15file-text
arrow-up1118arrow-down1message-squareWhat misconception are you tired of being spread?PhenomenalPancake@lemmy.world to Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world · edit-22 days agomessage-square276linkfedilinkfile-text
What’s a common “fact” that’s spread around that’s actually not true and pisses you off that too many people believe it?
minus-squaremagnetosphere@fedia.iolinkfedilinkarrow-up9·1 day agoA friend of mine got a high-paying temp job reprogramming servers in some obscure programming language. I think the client was a major bank. Yeah, a lot of dirtbags took advantage of Y2K, but that doesn’t mean Y2K wasn’t a serious problem. It easily could have been.
minus-squareripcord@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up11·1 day ago It easily could have been It was a very serious problem. Very few dirtbags took advantage of it. Obscure language was probably COBOL. Obscure in the sense that it was once immensely popular for business applications, but by the late 90s there were very few new applications written in it, but a huge number of large businesses still ran it.
minus-squareRooster326@programming.devlinkfedilinkarrow-up6·23 hours agoYou are really underselling the fact that many of these businesses are still running COBOL despite it being the equivalent of ancient Mayan.
minus-squareRizzRustbolt@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up3·11 hours agoThat’s not a fair assessment really… Some of them are still using PROLOG.
minus-squaremagnetosphere@fedia.iolinkfedilinkarrow-up4·1 day agoI meant “it easily could have been” in the sense that it if it hadn’t been taken seriously, it would affected virtually everyone in some way.
A friend of mine got a high-paying temp job reprogramming servers in some obscure programming language. I think the client was a major bank.
Yeah, a lot of dirtbags took advantage of Y2K, but that doesn’t mean Y2K wasn’t a serious problem. It easily could have been.
It was a very serious problem.
Very few dirtbags took advantage of it.
Obscure language was probably COBOL. Obscure in the sense that it was once immensely popular for business applications, but by the late 90s there were very few new applications written in it, but a huge number of large businesses still ran it.
You are really underselling the fact that many of these businesses are still running COBOL despite it being the equivalent of ancient Mayan.
That’s not a fair assessment really… Some of them are still using PROLOG.
Shivers
I meant “it easily could have been” in the sense that it if it hadn’t been taken seriously, it would affected virtually everyone in some way.