• Vector@lemmy.world
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    9 months ago

    Until it becomes obsolete, unsupportable, the crux of your operation, and/or the basis for all of your decisions 😬

    (Yes, I read the article, it’s just the signs, but yes, the above still applies!)

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      9 months ago

      COBOL has entered the chat

      e: good for legacy employment though. A relative of mine is a Z80 programmer by trade, and he can effectively walk into a job because the talent pool is so small now. Granted - the wages are never great but never poor, and the role is maintenance and troubleshooting rather than being on the leading edge of development - but it’s a job for life.

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        9 months ago

        Massive risk to that change too.

        So many people don’t understand how risk informs everything a business does.

        What cost is there to a given system being down for one hour? A day? Any regulations around it?

        Often it’s better to pay a known quantity up front than risk potential outages where you can’t predict all the downstream affects.

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      9 months ago

      I’d consider those various states of not working. So… Don’t fix it if it’s not broken!