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Sujet : Re: Can't Avoid That Shit Rust - Even On Gentoo
De : candycanearter07 (at) *nospam* candycanearter07.nomail.afraid (candycanearter07)
Groupes : comp.os.linux.advocacy comp.os.linux.misc
Date : 30. Sep 2024, 20:40:06

Autres entêtes

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186282@ud0s4.net <186283@ud0s4.net> wrote at 07:43 this Monday (GMT):

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 ......

Then, people ignore the problem until it's right there.
For instance, the 2038 problem I'm betting will be ignored until 2035.
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