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I get the feeling that COBOL won't have much of a Y2K38 problem, but the elevator and HVAC are suspect.

How ironic, isn't it. For some reason, everything written before the 90's still manages to work on particular platforms while everything after has been deprecated month by month.

Survivorship bias. The ones that broke aren't around to compare.

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