> being able to maintain the 30+ years of hacks that many large companies will have built up in these systems.
It's not even the hacks. It's that "how the business works" was automated into COBOL 30 or 40 years ago, everyone in the "business" who knew how and why things happened retired or got laid off, and the COBOL programmers are the only ones who remember the business rules.
It's not even the hacks. It's that "how the business works" was automated into COBOL 30 or 40 years ago, everyone in the "business" who knew how and why things happened retired or got laid off, and the COBOL programmers are the only ones who remember the business rules.