Can you just imagine that?
No this is not a plausible scenario.
No this is not a plausible scenario.
I’m not sure what you are calibrating against but I feel like the last 20 odd years are full absolute batshit crazy stuff that doesn’t make sense and this seems rather tame.
There is an old electric station near me that is used for various things sometimes. Some band was in there shooting a music video and bumped something and somehow the whole area started filling with water. Nobody could stop it.
The government, the water company, everyone was struggling to figure out what to do, and they decided to call the old guy that used to work there. He was in his 90s but he told them how to fix everything.
COBOL exists. Billions of lines of COBOL still in production today. The scenario is already happening now.
You can also always avoid goto, in C, but usually, either it has excessive if-statement nesting, it uses boolean flag variables in loop conditions, or it uses structures to create state machines, but these are usually just uglier and more error-prone than the equivalent version using goto. The same applies to avoiding break, continue, and early returns.