Rubbish It Systems Cost the Us at Least $40b During Covid: Study
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A study found that inadequate IT systems cost the US at least $40B during the Covid-19 pandemic, highlighting the need for better infrastructure; the discussion revolves around the implications and potential solutions to this issue.
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If you look at COBOL jobs you see a lot of them require you know 360 assembler because even after all these years it is common for z-Architecture apps to have some subroutines written in assembler which is a serious porting problem since you could otherwise switch to GNU COBOL on Linux or do a COBOL-to-Java translation or something.
Reminds me of the bad old days when it was normal to write inline assembler in Turbo Pascal, a decade ago I did work on some C++ code that used assembly for SIMD instructions though but if we were doing the same thing today we'd use Torch or Tensorflow or something.
Disappointingly narrow focus for such a poignant title.