bn-l 8 hours ago

Why is it so hard to replace? Are the algorithms just that good / impenetrable? Is the language particularly well suited for the task?

  • CraigRo 5 hours ago

    Theres a whole mainframe ecosystem of schedulers, databases, disk formats, batches, 3270 screens etc that are hard to replace piecemeal

jjgreen 7 hours ago

Fully translated to F77 by then ...

whobre 9 hours ago

Which is what they said in 1990 as well.