On Wed, Aug 03, 2016 at 02:41:29PM -0400, Steve Litt wrote: > > Politics of IT in the U.S. government > > http://www.itworld.com/article/3103585/government-it/politics-blamed-for-feds-reliance-on-old-it.html > > Hi all, > > In the preceding article, put away all the politics: That's not the > subject of my email. > > At first I almost vomited when reading this sentence: > > ================================================ > The Social Security Administration, for instance, has more than 60 > million lines of Cobol, > ================================================ > > My first thought: Cobol? Are you kidding? I thought I'd gotten done > with that in 1985!
And last I heard, they were processing everything on magnetic tapes. It might be better for them to use a database on redundant, backed-up disk drives. Perhaps that's the motive for a rewrite, rather than it all being COBOL. Or maybe they've already done that? It eas a while ago last I heard. For all I know, they are emulating tapes on disk drives now. -- hendrik _______________________________________________ Dng mailing list Dng@lists.dyne.org https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng