Comment on If COBOL is so problematic, why does the US government still use it?
Dyskolos@lemmy.zip 1 week agoNot only that. Finding coders will be harder and harder too. As said, it’s not trivial to “now i learn this language”. And the youth surely doesn’t see any reason to picking this ancient fossil of yesteryear :)
cmnybo@discuss.tchncs.de 1 week ago
The hard part is figuring out all of the tricks that were used to squeeze out every last bit of performance from ancient hardware and deciphering over half a century of updates.
Dyskolos@lemmy.zip 6 days ago
Oh yes, and this too. “Modern” coders mostly forgot the art (necessity) of optimizing. Just because we have it plenty.