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Re:The IRS’s Effort to Convert Its Assembly Codebase to Java by FigBug on Wednesday February 14, 2018 @01:33PM (#16378050)
Yes, manually. I missed that distinction, building the tool could be fun, but verifying it works would be a huge pain. Shouldn't be too hard to write test cases for tax code.
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Re:The IRS’s Effort to Convert Its Assembly Codebase to Java by theptip on Wednesday February 14, 2018 @05:26PM (#16380084)
> Shouldn't be too hard to write test cases for tax code.

I would disagree here -- like timezones, tax software has the disadvantage of being both extremely boring, and very fiddly (thus requiring close attention). This combination makes it very hard to maintain the concentration that's required to write exhaustive tests.

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