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submitted 11 months ago by ElCanut@jlai.lu to c/programmerhumor@lemmy.ml

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[–] connaisseur@feddit.org 12 points 11 months ago (1 children)

The issue with COBOL surely isn‘t about the language itself. The real challenge will be to decipher the spaghetti code that was created at a company in the last sixty or so years. And then to dare changing something without breaking the program as a whole.

[–] BeigeAgenda@lemmy.ca 8 points 11 months ago

That's easy you just use the huge number of test cases to ensure against introducing new bugs.