If COBOL is so problematic, why does the US government still use it?

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• Spitzspot@lemmings.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Simply re-write a modern relational database and then over a weekend, migrate decades worth of data all while being shortchanged every year by congressional budget cuts with programmers that wish to toil in obscurity while being paid bottom dollar. Where do I sign up to lead this shit-show?

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• Dyskolos@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

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  • lost_faith@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Only draw back is getting replacement parts when they go down.

    I remember an old Undergrads ep where Gimpy was at a pc war games/hacker camp and when he tried to hack in to the opponents systems they were using like 10 yr old macs (at the time 2001 was when the series aired) and he couldn’t

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    • Dyskolos@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

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• leaky_shower_thought@feddit.nl ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  i have read somewhere that a lot of businesses there follows the saying “if it works, don’t fix it”

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  • possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Correction: if it works, don’t spend money on it

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    • leaky_shower_thought@feddit.nl ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      loool, fair point.

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