A lot of those devices are probably still around and being happily used in produ... | Hacker News

Hacker Newsnew | past | comments | ask | show | jobs | submit

avsm on July 11, 2014 | parent | context | favorite | on: OCaml-TLS: ASN.1 and notation embedding

A lot of those devices are probably still around and being happily used in production.

I wonder for how many years in the future people will still have to fire up their HaskOCamlCoqda 10.4 ASN.1 library to deserialize EBCDIC over an ancient (gasp, wired!) serial port...

walshemj on July 11, 2014 [–]

I wonder if they have put in the extra code for handling invalid code ICL famously used zero indexing on one bit of x.400 that mandated "must start from 1" (and you wonder why the UK doesn't have a mainframe maker anymore).

and don't get me started on the bodged stack from sprint which blindly ignored the spec!

Guidelines | FAQ | Lists | API | Security | Legal | Apply to YC | Contact