And then one day it is broke

Landed Underclass managed to push nearly all of my geek buttons this morning with his response to my COBOL post, eventually my dribbling rant grew so long that I moved it here as it seemed rather rude to stuff such a long rant into someone’s comments.
“Does Blind Steve really think that matters would be improved [...]

Sooner or later, COBOL will kill us all

I read with some trepidation that the computer language COBOL (Short for COmmon Business Oriented Language) is fifty years old today.
“Why does this matter to me ?” I hear you cry. “I’m only here by accident, it is but a whistle-stop on my eternal quest to find play slime at wholesale prices .”
And well [...]

I love the smell of breaking crypto in the morning…

Mothers, don’t let your children grow up to be second rate amateur cryptanalysts.