• connaisseur
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    2 months ago

    The issue with COBOL surely isn‘t about the language itself. The real challenge will be to decipher the spaghetti code that was created at a company in the last sixty or so years. And then to dare changing something without breaking the program as a whole.

    • BeigeAgenda@lemmy.ca
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      2 months ago

      That’s easy you just use the huge number of test cases to ensure against introducing new bugs.

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