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lapfog_1

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9. oh, and there is still another "Y2K" issue coming up

Reply to TlalocW (Reply #6)

Tue Sep 25, 2018, 10:07 PM

Sep 2018

Year 2038...

That's the year that 32 bit time values "roll over"... (Unix and Linux)

so we have to look through all the old software again and convert to 64 bit seconds in time (plus another 64 for millie, micro, nano, etc).

If I'm still alive then (I'll be over 80), I might find useful employment for 6 months or so.

However, I expect that AI systems will be able to rewrite all of the software by then... right?

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Do You Know Cobol? If So, There Might Be a Job for You. [View all] question everything Sep 2018 OP

It's been years, but I have done Cobol programming. CentralMass Sep 2018 #1

yes, I used to teach COBOL in college... hated it lapfog_1 Sep 2018 #2

Interesting. My first courses in College involved using... tapes question everything Sep 2018 #3

paper tape... or punch cards on a "reel" of paper... (actually usually fanfold. lapfog_1 Sep 2018 #5

I took two semesters of COBOL in college in 1991-92 padfun Sep 2018 #4

actually it was intended to be as far away from Assembly as possible lapfog_1 Sep 2018 #7

Languages padfun Sep 2018 #10

There was a call for COBOL programmers back around Y2K TlalocW Sep 2018 #6

yes, it would be hard to have someone current with Python or something lapfog_1 Sep 2018 #8

Someday take a look at an IBM Z14. sinkingfeeling Sep 2018 #12

oh, and there is still another "Y2K" issue coming up lapfog_1 Sep 2018 #9

Yes, I do, but retired. My 48 year old son is a programmer, who sinkingfeeling Sep 2018 #11