DOGE Plans to Rebuild SSA Code Base in Months, Risking Benefits and System Collapse
www.wired.com
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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    2 months ago

    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”