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I was a developer on and the system manager for a number of VAXen in the mid-to-late 1980's, most at our local Air Force Base.
I think my worst abuse of DCL was when I wrote a preprocessor for VAX FORTRAN in DCL that reduced it to FORTRAN-77 syntax with some generated code. Good times.
Software Zen: delete this;
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Yeah, I developered, managered, and operatored a variety of VAX and Alpha systems, in education, manufacturing, transportation, and communication fields. So many employers trusted me with full privileges, the fools.
Mostly writing in C, often accessing databases.
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Been there two days ago. Forgot an underscore in the SQL for query, forgot to run the integration tests which immediately identified the problem when I did run them, but unfortunately the customer discovered the problem which took a LOT longer to smooth feathers and fix the 6 resulting issues than it did to type the underscore. 
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Man, you forget one TPS report cover sheet...
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It happens to me when I think I can save time by skipping the front-end (analysis) stuff that has worked in the past. The time you do not spend thinking you wind up spending rewriting; so, even "no progress" can be progress. (And I don't feel so bad procrastinating)
It was only in wine that he laid down no limit for himself, but he did not allow himself to be confused by it.
― Confucian Analects: Rules of Confucius about his food
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So true. I've also fallen into that trap. Just start writing code that later has to be totally reworked.
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Better sheepish then many weeks work!
The less you need, the more you have.
Even a blind squirrel gets a nut...occasionally.
JaxCoder.com
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It reminds me the time I spent two weeks delving in the depths of the Windows Dinamic Loader, to the point of reaching documentation dated in 1993, because I had a static variable in a DLL randomly blanked.
It was a marshaling mismatch, tha DLL memcpyed 4 bytes more than the application was expecting, overwriting said variable which was just contiguous and of course inside the process space, so no access violation. This exchange structure was sent on external events so it wasn't obvious what triggered it.
A single line of code fixed the issue.
GCS d--(d-) s-/++ a C++++ U+++ P- L+@ E-- W++ N+ o+ K- w+++ O? M-- V? PS+ PE- Y+ PGP t+ 5? X R+++ tv-- b+(+++) DI+++ D++ G e++ h--- r+++ y+++* Weapons extension: ma- k++ F+2 X
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Was there a symbol for the two chars before?
How many characters in the new symbol to describe the updated magic number?
I wonder is it was a v1 vs v2 type API. If you have been using the original vendor for that long it seems that they may have provided some backward compatibility.
New vendor may have joined the market at v2.
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Initial assumptions are frequently wrong. Be glad yours were and take the win.
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Today in ISO date format is 2021-12-02; which, without punctuation, is 20211202. When reversed, it is still 20211202.
Next (I guess) will be 2101-10-12
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I did say that I had guessed! Obviously wrongly. Thanks for the correction. 
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Not ISO format!
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
"Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt
AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!
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Just spotted that! Was going to edit my answer. Brain fog day.
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We all have 'em!
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
"Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt
AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!
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Hey Joe, when did you escape from the volcano?
Thar's only two possibilities: Thar is life out there in the universe which is smarter than we are, or we're the most intelligent life in the universe. Either way, it's a mighty sobering thought. (Porkypine - via Walt Kelly)
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But it is British.
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No, it's what I meant to show. 
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2030-03-02?
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
"Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt
AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!
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Who cares  
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You wouldn't believe how often I have that kind of reaction when people show me some new and fancy app on their smartphones. Or how they can make their living room lighting change in waves between different colors. Or their 20,000 LED decoration of their home, in celebration of something. Or ...
I tend to phrase my reaction as "And what is it for, really?" What's in it for me? Nothing. But let them have it, those who care. Let them have mathematical puzzles, too, if they like it. Palindromes (by the way: spelled with an i, not an e) is a sort of mathematical puzzle. I certainly won't condemn all sorts of puzzles.
Live on time, emit no evil!
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trønderen wrote: Palindromes (by the way: spelled with an i, not an e)
I'm definitely having a bad day. Thanks for correcting my spelling.
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