MattFeb 24

Is COBOL really that hard to understand? Fintech people talk about it like it's some esoteric thing that the gods left behind, that mere mortals cannot comprehend

Let me guess, those programs are actually full of clandestine backdoors and porting the software might blow their cover... right? Seems reasonable in this case they'd use AI to do a rewrite if they're trying to hide something, don't want any actual humans looking at how the sausage is made

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@mdc It would be interesting to see how often 'backdoor' is used in prompts given to these coding agent models. I can't imagine though COBOL is any easier to read than FORTRAN and that language gets painful fast.
Feb 24 at 9:43pmWeb