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SWBTATTReg

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1. Ha ha heh...they should have already known this, most of the Fed's computer systems are outdated, they never have

Mon Mar 10, 2025, 10:33 AM

Mar 2025

been updated since they were first put in. This was (and probably still is) looked at in the past, but the cost to redo this code into a modern language is astronomical. Thus, a lot of these systems are still written in code that I wouldn't be surprised many aren't around to code in, ASM, Pascal, Fortran, Basic (versions are a little more modern), RPG2, maybe SAS, C++, Java, Hypertext/HTMLetc. That's why so many older programmers probably can still land a job despite the fact that we're all getting up there in age (no new/younger programmers know these languages). And Muskrat should have known this too.

So, oftentimes the best solution is to rewrite in total these systems which is a far bigger thing to do, just can't rewrite millions of lines of code in a short timeframe. A lot more cost, a lot more testing involved. Of course, Moron the muskrat won't tell tRUMP this piece of news. He's too full of his giant ego to let someone else know that he doesn't know the coding involved...

Of course, the more used languages probably has a reservoir of users around still, COBOL, PLI, and of course one of the most important things to use w/ these older languages, is the job control language (JCL) detailing the input files, output files, and other job criteria needed to run the job, what DASD resources to use, what tables to point at (or files that the program(s) can refer to while running, etc.). DASD = Direct Access Storage Device.