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Re:Why JPEGs Still Rule the Web After 30 Years (2024) by jt2190 on Wednesday June 18, 2025 @07:58AM (#44309094)
The explanation for COBOL is not an engineering one, but an economics one: “It’s cheaper to train a programmer to use COBOL than it is to rewrite the codebase in <language>.” (Perhaps LLMs might change the economics here.)
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Re:Why JPEGs Still Rule the Web After 30 Years (2024) by leptons on Wednesday June 18, 2025 @10:59AM (#44310497)
"If it ain't broke, don't fix it" also applies here.

There is also no guarantee that whatever new language you port the COBOL code to won't also be seen as obsolete in a few years. Software developers are a fickle bunch.

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