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For some reason, Elon hates old people, including Cobol and older adults. He wants to do it quickly, killing two birds with one stone. (lemmy.world)
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[–] mkhopper@lemmy.world 25 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Oh fuck this.... I can't even look at my own code from a year or two ago and understand what the hell I was doing.

I learned some very basic COBOL back in high school (using punch cards), and that shit was confusing as hell.
There is no possible way that this ancient codebase could be migrated by a bunch of 20 year olds in such a short amount of time.

[–] The_Decryptor@aussie.zone 20 points 4 days ago (1 children)

They're just going to feed it to some LLM and then rely on the slop it outputs.

[–] Korhaka@sopuli.xyz 4 points 3 days ago

I need to stock up on popcorn for this