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Re:COBOL underpins the entire financial system by puritanicdev on Sunday November 22, 2020 @05:47AM (#25176462)
> Rug Driven Development

I'll steal this :) Encountered a few of those during my career as well as if you can't see a problems they can't hurt you...

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Re:COBOL underpins the entire financial system by stjohnswarts on Sunday November 22, 2020 @01:37PM (#25179770)
I have just straight up cleaned out my desk and turned in my notice once upon discovering something similar when delving deeply into the innards of an old embedded hardware stack.
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