Wikipedia suggests it's been there since 86. There is a whole lot of code written before 86 and I'm suspecting a whole lot of it doesn't get regularly refactor

Wikipedia suggests it's been there since 86. There is a whole lot of code written before 86 and I'm suspecting a whole lot of it doesn't get regularly refactored. I can tell you from experience that there's financial code with some dicey hard coding. I haven't seen it in a long time so hopefully some happy Cobol programmer jumped and used the money to retire early.