My Code Was in the Original Terminator Movie

Re:My Code Was in the Original Terminator Movie by thomascgalvin on Monday April 13, 2020 @04:12PM (#22859525)

So Skynet was written in COBOL. Explains why it was so angry, I guess.

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Re:My Code Was in the Original Terminator Movie by Igelau on Monday April 13, 2020 @07:42PM (#22861408)

They had to send the Terminator back in time to circumvent Y2K

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Re:My Code Was in the Original Terminator Movie by aforwardslash on Monday April 13, 2020 @08:55PM (#22861789)

If you're looking for a young guy working in cobol in the y2k vicinity, that was me (19 at the time). not only I added 2 more digits to some microfocus app, I also saved the world :) My first professional gig was with cobol, and it was almost cool.

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Re:My Code Was in the Original Terminator Movie by ArnieApproves on Tuesday April 14, 2020 @04:48PM (#22871248)

We salute you. Thanks for saving the world; to all greater y2k saveaists. What an unseen fix, you guys, all you y2k fixers, I mean, really did it. Thanks man(s).

man s might also mean women etc whatever all the new forms of people and identities goes on. We salute everyone.

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Re:My Code Was in the Original Terminator Movie by Igelau on Wednesday April 15, 2020 @12:21PM (#22879608)

I hope that's on your resume as "Heroic Engineer - Saves the world every day by staving off Y2K"

Thanks for sharing. Cool to hear from someone who was actually working on that.

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Re:My Code Was in the Original Terminator Movie by agumonkey on Monday April 13, 2020 @09:18PM (#22861899)

Someone calls Dyson, there's a shortage of COBOL experts I've heard

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Re:My Code Was in the Original Terminator Movie by JdeBP on Tuesday April 14, 2020 @10:12AM (#22866184)

Microsoft COBOL-80, specifically, per the magazine article.

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Re:My Code Was in the Original Terminator Movie by sdegutis on Monday April 13, 2020 @05:05PM (#22859965)

HN comments rarely make me laugh out loud, thank you :)

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