On Wed, 3 Aug 2016 20:50:53 +0100
Simon Hobson <linux@???> wrote:

> The banks - they have enormous amounts of "legacy" code which isn't broken and so isn't in need of fixing. Plus, the risks to them of replacing it is quite high.

The insurance company I worked for in France had umpteen million lines of Cobol in daily use, that needed maintaining and upgrading.

The real fun came in the run up to Y2K, when it was discovered some programs still in use, for which we only had the compiled executables, nobody could find the sources... ;-3(

Cheers,

Ron.
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