IRS’ 60-Year-Old IT System Failed on Tax Day Due to New Hardware

Re:IRS’ 60-Year-Old IT System Failed on Tax Day Due to New H... by gowld on Monday April 30, 2018 @07:53PM (#16963557)

I heard that COBOL programmers do pretty well because they are a rare commodity serving expensive industries.

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Re:IRS’ 60-Year-Old IT System Failed on Tax Day Due to New H... by raverbashing on Tuesday May 01, 2018 @02:33AM (#16964966)

If you're happy with working with something that destroys your brain and makes you useless to any other software technology developed in the last 20 years be my guest.

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Re:IRS’ 60-Year-Old IT System Failed on Tax Day Due to New H... by DrScump on Tuesday May 01, 2018 @07:46PM (#16972803)

COBOL doesn't destroy your brain, that I recall. In fact, if it bores you, it leaves a lot of brain capacity available for funner stuff, like MVS exploits via Resolve.

To me, it's the cool-app-of-the-month-that-harvests-private-data-off-peoples-devices that is brain-killing.

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