Our Government Runs on a 60-Year-Old Coding Language, and Now It’s Falling Apart
onezero.medium.com/our-government-runs-on-a-60-year-old-coding-language-and-now-its-falling-apart-61ec0bc8e121
What Jamie wrote
When society is faced with a new challenge that requires agility, technical legacy and inflexible systems that have received little to no investment cause a big problem.
Today, nearly half the world’s banking systems run on COBOL, according to Reuters, and more than 80% of card-based transactions use the code.
Sure, lets get some COBOL folks on the problem, but then hopefully we can invest to keep us out of bad spots.