On Wed, 3 Aug 2016 20:50:53 +0100
Simon Hobson <[email protected]> wrote:
> The banks - they have enormous amounts of "legacy" code which isn't broken
> and so isn't in need of fixing. Plus, the risks to them of replacing it is
> quite high.
The insurance company I worked for in France had umpteen million lines of Cobol
in daily use, that needed maintaining and upgrading.
The real fun came in the run up to Y2K, when it was discovered some programs
still in use, for which we only had the compiled executables, nobody could find
the sources... ;-3(
Cheers,
Ron.
--
Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable
that we have to alter it every six months.
-- Oscar Wilde
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