A COBOL programmer, tired of the bug chaos in the legacy codebase, decides to have themselves cryogenically frozen to skip the whole mess. Years later, they're thawed out.
"Did I sleep through?" they ask.
"It's the year 9999," the scientists replied, "And we need you to fix some legacy code from 2000, which is still in production ."
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