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[-] [email protected] 12 points 11 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.

[-] [email protected] 8 points 11 months ago

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

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