Isn’t C short for COBOL?

December 23, 2005 by
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From the Holiday Smorgasbord of The Daily WTF (a source of amusing techie sillies):

Chris : We’re having problems with the new version of your software.
Support : That can’t be. We didn’t change anything.
Chris : Well, I uninstalled the new version and put the old one back on, and the problem went away. I then reinstalled the new version, and the problem came back.
Support : No, it can’t be our software. We didn’t change anything!
( … Lots of back and forth about my analysis of the problem …)
Chris : So you’re telling me that you sent out an update, but you didn’t change anything. If that’s the case, what’s the point of the update?
( … More back and forth, Support getting more and more exasperated …)
Support : I’m telling you, nothing changed!!! The only difference between the old version and the new version is that the old version was in COBOL, and the new one is in C!!!

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