I like retro computing - and this ain’t it. This is consultants gouging their clients, and a cultish “we don’t touch that” inherited through generations of mana

I like retro computing - and this ain’t it. This is consultants gouging their clients, and a cultish “we don’t touch that” inherited through generations of management. To be clear, parts of it are in COBOL. Other bits are in RPG, others yet in PL/1, and then a generous application of java, c++, windows shell scripts, unix shell scripts, and it’s all held together with TSVs. It’s more like hoarding than anything else - “don’t touch that, it might be useful, I don’t know, just leave it as it is, we’ll get eleven new servers for whatever it is that it does” In the end we gave them a pile of python that ingested malformatted EDIs that another system made and spat out TSVs so that same system could then not trip over its own shoelaces.