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A COBOL programmer explains that this migration is impossible without catastrophe unless they want to destroy social security.
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this post was submitted on 29 Mar 2025
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Best case scenario, they'll steal the money, never deliver anything and leave the old system in place
Result is a Javascript wrapper that runs the same old routines amyway, but with a nice coat of coding paint.
That would be too competent, since that's how real migrations work - you wrap COBOL in something that can integrate with more modern programming languages and replace it bit by bit, though hopefully not in JavaScript.
Yeah, use [Java, C, Assembly, PHP...] instead
FAQ:
"My social security check is made out to [object Object], can I still deposit it?"
Poor Bobby Tables needs his too...
We're sorry, we can't accept a check for the amount of "NaN."