i appreciate the thoughtfulness of this thread very much... obviously, defintely hit a nerve. and I agree with everything that's been said. i've been talking w

i appreciate the thoughtfulness of this thread very much... obviously, defintely hit a nerve. and I agree with everything that's been said. i've been talking with a couple different banks (across the US) and they all are sharing the same concerns, whether their systems are VB6 or newer. i'm with a group of machine learning and software maintenance folks who are trying to build tools to make refactoring/ migration/ speedups easier. if anyone is curious, we'd love to get feedback on the tools, see if they might help in similar situations, or could be improved.