On: A Modern Compiler for the French Tax Code

[toolslive]

In Belgium, calculation of the pensions was done in a mix of BS2000 assembly language and COBOL until at least 2007, when they entered a race to switch to Java before the last of the original developers retired.

[specialist → toolslive]

I worked for an org that tried to modernize, again, their mainframe legacy code, and failed.

I always thought it'd be easier to use an emulator and keep using the old stuff. Then over time whittle the code base down to just the business logic.

[toolslive → specialist]

So you think they still had a 1970s mainframe ? No: Siemens themselves replaced it with an x84 based emulator in the 90s (which ran on a desktop machine).