Thanks, this is good context! > Plugging that equivalent number into a Cocomo calculator, it says "20 years of 800+ programmers". Of course, it's been 50+ yea

Thanks, this is good context! > Plugging that equivalent number into a Cocomo calculator, it says "20 years of 800+ programmers". Of course, it's been 50+ years, but I doubt Bank of New York had 300+ programmers working for them all those years? It would make sense if copy-paste were a lot of it. Which makes me think if you did want (or more likely have no choice and need) to make some serious changes to the codebase, some kind of automated assist could be very helpful. I wonder what the state of COBOL tooling is. I wonder if it's going to get better as the technical debt comes due in a hard way.