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For better or for worse, the IRS is probably the worst ambassador for COBOL.
by justinator 4y ago
For 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.