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Subject: Re: Rewriting SSA. Is This A Chance For GNU/Linux?
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On 3/30/25 11:08 PM, pothead wrote:
> On 2025-03-30, rbowman <bowman@montana.com> wrote:
>> On Sun, 30 Mar 2025 03:42:18 -0400, c186282 wrote:
>>
>>>     As for the SSA (and IRS) ... reports are that they're STILL using
>>>     1960s computers for certain operations and thus really can't
>>>     integrate anything.
>>
>> https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2025/03/what-could-possibly-go-wrong-
>> doge-to-rapidly-rebuild-social-security-codebase/
>>
>> I've never dealt with SSA other than as a consumer. However I have had to
>> deal with the DOI's IMARS (Incident Management Analysis and Reporting
>> System) that was deployed around 2012. Great fun!
>>
>> Then there is the FBI's NIBRS (National Incident Based Reporting System)
>> that is meant to replace the UCR (Uniform Crime Reports) system that went
>> back to the 1920s.  The format for submitting data is a moving target and
>> crime in the US is under-reported since many agencies can't manage to
>> submit their data successfully.
>>
>> Based on those two, I give the chance of updating the SSA system in less
>> than 10 years a very low probability. The US government's attention span
>> is more like 10 days than 10 years so good luck. Unlike the other two CFs
>> I have a personal interest in continuing to receive my checks every month.
>>
> Financial institutions are still running COBOL as well as other legacy
> systems like TPF.
> They also run Linux on mainframes in logical partitions.
> More recently is the adoption of the MongoDB platform which also runs on
> 'old iron' mainframes.
> The once dead mainframe has made a huge comeback due to virtualization and
> reliability due to being N+1 at a minimum.
> However the big market is in storage devices and programming to support AI.
> 
> the more things change, the more they seem to stay the same.

   The old COBOL code - writ by narrow-tie 60s geniuses - is
   gonna be HARD to replicate even WITH 'AI' help.

   What works, WORKS ... and bureaucracies will GO with that
   theme for as long as possible and a bit more.

   As I said elsewhere ... Python or RUST ... 'C' is just
   great BUT can too easily hide all kinds of faults and
   vulnerabilities. Check THIS week's list of M$ buffer-
   overflow vulnerabilities ..........

   'Ada' - no, No, NO ... it's a b-crats lang, takes FOREVER
   to produce anything. Just TORTURE.

   Sorry lady Lovelace .............