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Wow that’s crazy, I love learning new tidbits about how older tech like cobol or mainframes or something are still around and plugging along
by swlkr 4y ago
Wow that’s crazy, I love learning new tidbits about how older tech like cobol or mainframes or something are still around and plugging along
- chefandy 4y agoKind of mind boggling. You figure "surely there must have been a point at which being that change-averse bit them in the ass hard enough to modernize their approach" but... guess not. In fact, one large banking system I worked on in the late aughts completely revamped their megalith of a back-end for a major component of their system and the only two things they didn't change were using AIX and Oracle.
- scns 4y agoRich Hickeys Company Cognitect is now owned by a bank from brazil. They started off with Clojure though.
- spacemanmatt 4y agoI'm still supporting a legacy app running PHP5 and Java 1.4