Technology@lemmy.zipEnglish · 2 months ago

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

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

Technology@lemmy.zipEnglish · 2 months ago

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If you've gotten cash from an ATM, you've interacted with a COBOL-based system. Here's why this old programming language will probably outlive us all.

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Oh yes, and this too. “Modern” coders mostly forgot the art (necessity) of optimizing. Just because we have it plenty.

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