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    1. quarantine 'em‏ @qntm Apr 4
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      quarantine 'em Retweeted zaratustra secret ninja from nasa

      Trick question, a televised urgent plea for COBOL developers could be any year between 1959 and 9999https://twitter.com/zarawesome/status/1246518788759134210 …

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      zaratustra secret ninja from nasa @zarawesome
      WHAT YEAR IS IT https://twitter.com/manicode/status/1246497036389793792 …
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    2. quarantine 'em‏ @qntm Apr 4
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      There's a joke whose punchline is "Well we're coming up to the Y10K problem and it said on your cryogenic unit that you know COBOL", I'll let you reverse-engineer how it goes

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    3. quarantine 'em‏ @qntm Apr 4
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      Previouslyhttps://twitter.com/qntm/status/1219416183298035712 …

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      All code is a liability. Code that nobody owns, nobody knows how it works, how to build it, what to do when it goes wrong, is a massive liability and a time bomb
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    4. quarantine 'em‏ @qntm Apr 10
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      That troubling possibility that leaving your system to run unattended for years at a time, and placing an urgent public call for COBOL developers only when it breaks, may be more cost-effective than keeping a COBOL developer on staff or migrating to something modern

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    5. quarantine 'em‏ @qntm Apr 10
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      Six weeks later the emergency COBOL developer has saved your bacon and gone back into retirement. Thus solving the problem once and for all

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    6. quarantine 'em‏ @qntm Apr 10
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      To be clear, I don't want to disparage COBOL. I know barely anything about it as a language. It being old is not a problem. The problem is the diminishing number of available programmers

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    7. Ted Mielczarek‏ @TedMielczarek Apr 10
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      I had this conversation with a friend yesterday. I really don't think we'd be in better shape if they had paid someone to rewrite it all in node.js at some point, they'd just have an easier time finding developers to fix it when it broke because it wasn't designed for this.

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      That's the crux of the matter. They have a critical system, but they didn't keep anybody around who could take care of it. Doesn't matter what the system is written in

      7:59 AM - 10 Apr 2020
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