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The phone company, irs, local utility, etc. any large business that was in operation 60+ years ago?
by balderdash 4y ago
The phone company, irs, local utility, etc. any large business that was in operation 60+ years ago?
- justinator 4y agoFor better or for worse, the IRS is probably the worst ambassador for COBOL.
- skissane 4y agoTheir COBOL stuff is positively modern when compared to the oldest part of the IRS stack, which is written in IBM 7074 assembly - that’s IBM’s pre-S/360 business mainframe line, from the early 1960s. It runs under an emulator on contemporary IBM mainframes. (I know IRS has been working on rewriting it all - the 7074 assembly, the 360/370 assembly, and the COBOL - in newer languages such as Java. I don’t know where they are up to with that, so I don’t know if they still have 7074 apps live today. But certainly they did as recently as 4-5 years ago.)
- justinator 4y agoI believe you - it's more the perception of how backwards and dysfunctional the IRS seems to operate.