Loduz_247@lemmy.world to Bluesky@lemmy.worldEnglish · 16 days agoA COBOL programmer explains that this migration is impossible without catastrophe unless they want to destroy social security.lemmy.worldimagemessage-square52linkfedilinkarrow-up1566arrow-down16
arrow-up1560arrow-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 · 16 days agomessage-square52linkfedilink
minus-squareGoun@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkarrow-up42·16 days agoBest case scenario, they’ll steal the money, never deliver anything and leave the old system in place
minus-squareRentlarlinkfedilinkarrow-up22·16 days 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-up27·16 days 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-216 days agoYeah, use [Java, C, Assembly, PHP…] instead
minus-squareFauxLiving@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up6·15 days agoFAQ: “My social security check is made out to [object Object], can I still deposit it?”
minus-squaredual_sport_dork 🐧🗡️@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·15 days 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.”