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.
  • SnausagesinaBlanket@lemmy.world
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    5 days ago

    COBOL systems, when properly maintained, are highly reliable, with built-in redundancy and fault tolerance.

    They can’t have that because they want excuses when it goes down and leaves old people to starve and ruin their credit.