For some reason, Elon hates old people, including Cobol and older adults. He wants to do it quickly, killing two birds with one stone. - eviltoast
  • valkyre09@lemmy.world
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    7 days ago

    Don’t worry, I’m sure they’ll make a full backup before they do something as drastic as try to re-write the system. /s

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      I fully expect them to celebrate launch day by taking a sledgehammer to the old machine like that scene from Office Space. All I can say is that I really hope the SSA has been virtualizing their old COBOL applications and not running them on an ancient mainframe.