Loduz_247@lemmy.world to Bluesky@lemmy.worldEnglish · 2 months agoA COBOL programmer explains that this migration is impossible without catastrophe unless they want to destroy social security.lemmy.worldimagemessage-square52fedilinkarrow-up1567arrow-down16
arrow-up1561arrow-down1imageA COBOL programmer explains that this migration is impossible without catastrophe unless they want to destroy social security.lemmy.worldLoduz_247@lemmy.world to Bluesky@lemmy.worldEnglish · 2 months agomessage-square52fedilink
minus-squareGoun@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkarrow-up42·2 months agoBest case scenario, they’ll steal the money, never deliver anything and leave the old system in place
minus-squareRentlar@lemmy.calinkfedilinkarrow-up22·2 months agoResult is a Javascript wrapper that runs the same old routines amyway, but with a nice coat of coding paint.
minus-squarejmcs@discuss.tchncs.delinkfedilinkarrow-up27·2 months agoThat 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.
minus-squareKecessa@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkarrow-up4·edit-22 months agoYeah, use [Java, C, Assembly, PHP…] instead
minus-squareFauxLiving@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up6·2 months agoFAQ: “My social security check is made out to [object Object], can I still deposit it?”
minus-squaredual_sport_dork 🐧🗡️@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·2 months agoWe’re sorry, we can’t accept a check for the amount of “NaN.”
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.”