Start Them Young

ibm Legacy code Programming history Mainframe Cobol Old technology Punch cards Banking systems Vintage computing

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1 year ago 404,311 views 1 shares

Start Them Young

legacy-code-memes, mainframe-memes, cobol-memes, ibm-memes, programming-history-memes | ProgrammerHumor.io

Nothing says "responsible parenting" quite like abandoning your child with a mainframe computer from the 1970s and a COBOL manual! This is basically the programming equivalent of leaving your kid with dinosaurs as babysitters. That poor child is about to learn that semicolons aren't just for English class and that punch cards were the original "swipe right." The ultimate character-building exercise: debug COBOL or no dinner tonight! Honestly, this might explain why so many banking systems still run on ancient code - those traumatized children grew up and refused to ever touch the code again.

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