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Monday, 31 March 2025 11:24
Musk gives DOGE months to replace SSA code
Replace 60 million lines of COBOL--yeah right
Elon [Roman Salute] Musk is trying to modernise America’s Social Security Administration with a crack team of DOGE-linked technologists and a timeframe that makes actual engineers laugh out loud.

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Monday, 17 February 2025 09:28
Musk’s minions confuse their COBOL
There are no 150-year-olds in the US
Elon [Roman Salute] Musk’s team of elite coding nerds bragged that they found fake 150-year-old people collecting Social Security in the US with their cheques illegally cashed -- however it turns out they didnn't know their COBOL.

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Monday, 05 June 2017 11:59
Co-designer of COBOL dies
But the code still lives on
Early software engineer and co-designer of COBOL, Jean Sammet, has died in Maryland at the age of 89.