Re: Can't Avoid That Shit Rust - Even On Gentoo

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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