This is a post about a fun experiment, but these kinds of tasks are day to day jobs for quite a few people. Fortran or COBOL codebases are often unmaintained ye

This is a post about a fun experiment, but these kinds of tasks are day to day jobs for quite a few people. Fortran or COBOL codebases are often unmaintained yet relied upon. I remember when we updated our Fortran compilers (because of other tooling) and they had problems with our 80s/early 90s code. That was joy to debug.