My first job out of university was working on the mainframe systems for the Canada Pension Plan (equivalent to US Social Security). Every now and then some upstanding citizen would go in to register for their retirement benefits only to be told that unfortunately, as far as the computer was concerned, they were already dead. So we would run the "Lazarus" routine to resurrect them.
That was in the mid 90's but I'm sure the same thing is still happening today. Pensioners will eventually die, but that old COBOL code never will! :)
That was in the mid 90's but I'm sure the same thing is still happening today. Pensioners will eventually die, but that old COBOL code never will! :)