A COBOL programmer, tired of all the extra work and chaos caused by the impending Y2K bug, decides to have himself cryogenically frozen for a year so he can skip all of it.

He gets himself frozen, and eventually is woken up when several scientists open his cryo-pod.

"Did I sleep through Y2K? Is it the year 2000?", he asks.

The scientists nervously look at each other. Finally, one of them says "Actually, it's the year 9999. We hear you know COBOL."

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[–] entropicdrift@lemmy.sdf.org 29 points 2 months ago (2 children)

The language itself is not hard. It's reading other people's code written in it that is hard.

So basically like any other programming language.

[–] gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.works 14 points 2 months ago

Yeah and I’ve got near on two decades of experience, so I think it’s worth a shot lol