JAVA is not magical - It's actually a POS It is slow and cumbersome. Its 12 times slower Than COBOL and difficult to debug
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- This electronic mail (including any attachments) may contain information that is privileged, confidential, and/or otherwise protected from disclosure to anyone other than its intended recipient(s). Any dissemination or use of this electronic email or its contents (including any attachments) by persons other than the intended recipient(s) is strictly prohibited. If you have received this message in error, please notify us immediately by reply email so that we may correct our internal records. Please then delete the original message (including any attachments) in its entirety. Thank you -----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Seymour J Metz Sent: Friday, April 4, 2025 12:30 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: DOGE wants to modernize Social Security’s legacy tech — what could possibly go wrong? – Computerworld Two things to remember: 1. The map is not the territory. Just because somebody uses the word efficiency doesn't mean that they concerned with efficiency. 2. The application of a language is not the language. Just because somebody encodes unknown as 150 when writing in COBOL doesn't mean that 150 (as opposed to, e.g., 77, 88) is intrinsic to COBOL, nor does it mean that converting to Java will magically cause that encoding to magically go away. To me, modernizing the COBOL code means using the language features that have been added over the decades. -- Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz http://mason.gmu.edu/~smetz3 עַם יִשְׂרָאֵל חַי נֵ֣צַח יִשְׂרָאֵ֔ל לֹ֥א יְשַׁקֵּ֖ר ________________________________________ From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List on behalf of Mark Regan Sent: Friday, April 4, 2025 12:52 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Fwd: DOGE wants to modernize Social Security’s legacy tech — what could possibly go wrong? – Computerworld External Message: Use Caution This might wrap for some of you. https://www.computerworld.com/article/3953741/doge-wants-to-modernize-social-securitys-legacy-tech-what-could-possibly-go-wrong.html Regards, Mark Regan ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
