Subj : Re: COBOL?
To   : POINDEXTER FORTRAN
From : Dumas Walker
Date : Mon May 08 2023 03:49 pm

>  DW> *sigh* Yes.  I keep forgetting about the technical backwater which is
>  DW> the gov't.

> California EDD was backlogged during COVID and blamed their COBOL code.
> I bet they were waiting on budget for another dozen AS/400s.

Kentucky was blaming "the computer program" for the UI issues during the
same period, but the real problem was that they had stopped staffing the
area in charge of updating the code.  They only had 2 programmers on
staff to try to make all of the changes required to override the rules of
"normal, non-pandemic processing."


 * SLMR 2.1a * Got my tie caught in the fax... Suddenly I was in L.A.

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