Reminds me of the stories of various us state functions that use 35+ year old computers at a snail's pace. A few years back I'd been all up in arms about shit like that, but a few shit computers and arcane systems is the last bastion of anti pmc thought, and I don't care if it takes 120 man hours to do what a spread sheet and a plugin can do in 15min if it puts food on the table for workers
Lots of government systems are written in COBOL, and just about everyone who knows how to develop it is retired or dead. Sometimes to replace outdated hardware, they just emulate the outdated hardware on a modern system and run the same ancient software.
Reminds me of the stories of various us state functions that use 35+ year old computers at a snail's pace. A few years back I'd been all up in arms about shit like that, but a few shit computers and arcane systems is the last bastion of anti pmc thought, and I don't care if it takes 120 man hours to do what a spread sheet and a plugin can do in 15min if it puts food on the table for workers
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Lots of government systems are written in COBOL, and just about everyone who knows how to develop it is retired or dead. Sometimes to replace outdated hardware, they just emulate the outdated hardware on a modern system and run the same ancient software.