Reply to post: New applications aren't COBOL, give me a break

Sloppy coding + huge PSD2 changes = Lots of late nights for banking devs next year

Milo Tsukroff
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New applications aren't COBOL, give me a break

> Applications between five and 10 years old have the

> greatest potential for security flaws

Yep, that's because new applications are not written in COBOL! Give me a break, could people please get off this "COBOL is evil" and go to the domain experts.... show someone in Accounting what the code is doing in COBOL, after a half-hour you have them nodding their head and understanding. Other languages, such as C++, are so obtuse that I've heard a rumor that programmers love it because even their boss doesn't know what they're doing. Forget about a pencil-head ever understanding what the code is doing.

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