DOGE Plans to Rebuild SSA Code Base in Months, Risking Benefits and System Collapse
www.wired.com
Social Security systems contain tens of millions of lines of code written in COBOL, an archaic programming language. Safely rewriting that code would take years—DOGE wants it done in months.
  • letzlo@feddit.nlEnglish
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    2 months ago

    In theory it is a horrible idea. No port like this ever works out. An incremental approach has much higher chance of success but will take long.