I was surprised in modern day America to see this as even within the article it is stated as a"crusty and dusty legacy code." Cheers John On 6/04/20 2:00 pm, Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:
The Governor of the US state of New Jersey is appealing for help in maintaining their elderly COBOL-based mainframe systems <https://www.theregister.co.uk/2020/04/05/new_jersey_seeks_cobol_volunteers/> that process welfare benefit requests. The volume of requests has gone up a lot lately, and the systems are having trouble coping.
By the way, I don’t understand this “ugly side of technical debt” phrase. Does technical debt have a pretty side? _______________________________________________ wlug mailing list -- wlug(a)list.waikato.ac.nz | To unsubscribe send an email to wlug-leave(a)list.waikato.ac.nz Unsubscribe: https://list.waikato.ac.nz/postorius/lists/wlug.list.waikato.ac.nz