> Why port a system from 40 years ago? Because the 3 to 4 previous attempts (depending on how you count) over 5 decades costing tens of billions of today's dol

> Why port a system from 40 years ago? Because the 3 to 4 previous attempts (depending on how you count) over 5 decades costing tens of billions of today's dollars all failed to replace it[1]. Not that machine translation has been breakthrough panacea either, apparently, but at least they've shown enough flexibility to try a pragmatic approach. [1] https://spectrum.ieee.org/riskfactor/computing/it/irs-predicted-tax-filing-failure https://spectrum.ieee.org/riskfactor/computing/it/irs-predic...