Comment on DOGE Plans to Rebuild SSA Codebase in Months, Risking Benefits and System Collapse
gedhrel@lemmy.world 2 weeks agoNot just domain logic. The implementation logic is often weird too. Cobol systems have crash/restart behaviour and other obscure semantics that often end up being used in anger; it’s like using exceptions for control flow, but exceedingly obscure and unfortunately (from what I’ve seen of production cobol) a “common trick” in lots of real-world deployments.