Erin Vang
@erinvang.bsky.social
Custom JMP Scripting (JSL and addins), content strategy, analytics, facilitative leadership consultant at Global Pragmatica. Kept by dog & cats. Horn player. Erdős-Bacon number 7.
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In 2045, when this has become well-documented history, that you read it here first, from a merely semi-old programmer, who does not know COBOL herself, but who had led a Y2K preparedness tiger team at a stats software company in 1998-99.
In 2045, when this has become well-documented history, that you read it here first, from a merely semi-old programmer, who does not know COBOL herself, but who had led a Y2K preparedness tiger team at a stats software company in 1998-99.
March 28, 2025 at 3:42 PM
3/3
In 2045, when this has become well-documented history, that you read it here first, from a merely semi-old programmer, who does not know COBOL herself, but who had led a Y2K preparedness tiger team at a stats software company in 1998-99.
In 2045, when this has become well-documented history, that you read it here first, from a merely semi-old programmer, who does not know COBOL herself, but who had led a Y2K preparedness tiger team at a stats software company in 1998-99.
2/3
15 years later the whole system is scrapped, but this whole time, an old COBOL guy has been quietly running a patched version with a compiler he threw together on a Cray from a dump. Alt Doge kept HHS running all these years despite a succession of presidents trying to kill it.
15 years later the whole system is scrapped, but this whole time, an old COBOL guy has been quietly running a patched version with a compiler he threw together on a Cray from a dump. Alt Doge kept HHS running all these years despite a succession of presidents trying to kill it.
March 28, 2025 at 3:41 PM
2/3
15 years later the whole system is scrapped, but this whole time, an old COBOL guy has been quietly running a patched version with a compiler he threw together on a Cray from a dump. Alt Doge kept HHS running all these years despite a succession of presidents trying to kill it.
15 years later the whole system is scrapped, but this whole time, an old COBOL guy has been quietly running a patched version with a compiler he threw together on a Cray from a dump. Alt Doge kept HHS running all these years despite a succession of presidents trying to kill it.
I replied:
1/3
Good luck with that. It would take a few years for some young buck to learn COBOL, more to read the code and write a spec, and a decade for disaffected coders to do a shitty job of implementing the shitty requirements by the shitty python hack who misunderstood the original COBOL.
1/3
Good luck with that. It would take a few years for some young buck to learn COBOL, more to read the code and write a spec, and a decade for disaffected coders to do a shitty job of implementing the shitty requirements by the shitty python hack who misunderstood the original COBOL.
March 28, 2025 at 3:40 PM
I replied:
1/3
Good luck with that. It would take a few years for some young buck to learn COBOL, more to read the code and write a spec, and a decade for disaffected coders to do a shitty job of implementing the shitty requirements by the shitty python hack who misunderstood the original COBOL.
1/3
Good luck with that. It would take a few years for some young buck to learn COBOL, more to read the code and write a spec, and a decade for disaffected coders to do a shitty job of implementing the shitty requirements by the shitty python hack who misunderstood the original COBOL.
Third Try
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This one went a lot better for me but other than green I was mostly flailing.
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This one went a lot better for me but other than green I was mostly flailing.
January 28, 2025 at 5:19 AM
Third Try
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This one went a lot better for me but other than green I was mostly flailing.
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🟨🟦🟨🟨
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This one went a lot better for me but other than green I was mostly flailing.