Papamousse

you shout in COBOL ;-)

I learnt COBOL (I’m old) it’s a very easy language, you basically talk, for instance to do c=a*b you write:

MULTIPLY A TO B GIVING C

and everything is tabbed, but in a good editor like emacs, it’s done automatically pretty well.

Absolutely, I started computers in 1981, for me 1K is 1024 bytes and will always be. 1000 bytes is a scam

tcsh also! I used it a lot uhhhh last century

Haha yes, no problem with those 😁

2038 will certainly be a shit show

I worked in broadcasting (programming broadcasting applications), everything is done with PTP (Precise Time Protocol) and TC (timecode) in video. We had to support leap second, it’s not as easy, but in the end, insert black frames for 1s and that’s it.

Yeah incredible, this is like a 20yo quote!