Re: Rewriting SSA. Is This A Chance For GNU/Linux?

On 3/29/25 5:38 AM, Farley Flud wrote:

Elon Musk, the super dumb-fuck retard with a face that resembles
a horse's ass, wants to rewrite the entire software base of the
Social Security Administration:
 https://www.wired.com/story/doge-rebuild-social-security-administration-cobol-benefits/

   You mean "Elon Musk, the relatively handsome ultra-smart
   person", of course  :-)
   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.
   While I'm all for old hardware that still serves, in
   these cases, well ....... probably all COBOL too.
   The prob with that old COBOL is that most was writ
   by VERY good narrow-tie guys and works perfectly.
   As such any tweak these days represents high
   anxiety - the chance of blowing up What Just Works.
   Trust Gen-Z doing re-writes ???

Could this be a magnificent opportunity for GNU/Linux and FOSS?
 Naw.  That ugly dumb-fuck wants to use Java.
 What?  No Rust?  I already hear the beatniks moaning.

   Ummmmmmm ... I'd rather use Rust than fuckin' JAVA  :-)
   Still not sure why you hate Rust over all else. It is
   an 'unnecessary' lang - not THAT diff from 'C' - but
   it's not evil.
   Hey, maybe Musk will compromise ... how about ERLANG ?
   Oh wait, it's govt ... so BrainFuck instead  !  :-)

Heck.  I would have recommended Python.  It would cut down the
programming time, and programmers, by 10,000 per cent.

   Likely.
   Python these days is almost infinitely capable. Not
   everyone likes it, but 'works' means 'WORKS'. Yea yea,
   some things you can do in half the code using 'C', but
   'C' is not nearly as 'readable' and can hide MANY mistakes.
   Even M$ can't get all the bugs out ... find THIS weeks
   list of potential buffer overflow attacks ........

Who cares if it takes 20 years for the cost-of-living increase
to process.
 Ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha!

   Well, Trump will nix inflation ... so no COLA needed !