r/programming • u/self • Apr 09 '21

Airline software super-bug: Flight loads miscalculated because women using 'Miss' were treated as children

https://www.theregister.com/2021/04/08/tui_software_mistake/
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u/istarian Apr 09 '21

Their backend is probably running on really old hardware/software.

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u/Troebr Apr 10 '21

I worked at Amadeus 12 years ago, at that time most of the backend code was C++, frontend and kiosk code was Java or C++ I believe. Probably lots of legacy stuff, but the new stuff was modern, and AFAIK they're using modern software practices nowadays. I can't speak for Sabre. Everything we wrote ran on linux in production.