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From: Opisthocomus
People think that it would be a good idea to convert these business critical systems from (ancient) COBOL running on IBM mainframes to (modern - lol!) Java running on commodity server farms. This, to me, seems to be madness. All of the existing, battle tested code, which caters for decades of obscure corner cases ad forgotten business decisions runs on existing and on all future IBM mainframes. Trying to rewrite it from scratch is bound to fail. Training COBOL programmers is not the problem - its as easy to learn as any other language. The problem is finding enough domain experts willing to work with a rather tedious and verbose language.

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Denc, you were interested in buying IBM because of its quantum computing potential:...[more]	Opisthocomus	22:46:13
>> Yes good point. I can and did write COBOL, first CSY product Viista was written ... [more]	Denc 🗡	23:02:49
>> Data Division, Processing Division, Environment division, memories come back.	Denc 🗡	23:10:00
>> Forgot Identification division. I knew there were 4	Denc 🗡	23:12:59
>> Dunno why that ability would have such an impact on IBM though.	Denc 🗡	23:05:15
>> People think that it would be a good idea to convert these business critical ... [more]	Opisthocomus	23:38:36
>> If it aint broke dont fix it. Generation Z or whatever don’t have the ... [more]	Denc 🗡	23:51:35

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