Social Security systems contain tens of millions of lines of code written in COBOL, an archaic programming language. Safely rewriting that code would take years—DOGE wants it done in months.
  • Boomer Humor Doomergod@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    9 个月前

    Functional, yes. But rarely are these sorts of things efficient. They’re covered in decades of cruft and workarounds.

    Which just makes them that much harder to port to a different language. Especially by some 19 year old who goes by “Big Balls”