Sujet : Re: Can't Avoid That Shit Rust - Even On Gentoo
De : 186283 (at) *nospam* ud0s4.net (186282@ud0s4.net)
Groupes : comp.os.linux.advocacy comp.os.linux.miscDate : 30. Sep 2024, 08:43:16
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On 9/30/24 3:21 AM, rbowman wrote:
On Mon, 30 Sep 2024 06:03:29 -0000 (UTC), Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:
Fun fact: I was reworking an old perpetual-calendar program I first
wrote back in 1980, to use Fortran 90, a few months ago. And I found a
bug in my algorithm that never showed up in any years from the 20th
century, but did manifest itself in the 21st century.
Y2K rides again... I think in many cases the problem was recognized in
the '70s and '80s but nobody expected the code to last decades.
Very true - and TROUBLESOME.
We all think in the NOW. With effort we can think
a FEW years ahead. But a whole new century or
something similar ... TOO MUCH WORK to future-
proof. We'll "get back to it", sometime ......
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