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So dumb that you couldn't even have imagine it.
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I work with COBOL software. That thing is so sensitive and complex, they just piled up wrappers, and apis of all kinds on top of the original COBOL code to avoid touching it because it just works. And that software is nowhere near critical as the backend for social security.
Good fucking luck
Yes, the people that think those monsters czn just be rewritten have never actually looked at how they work. After half an hour they'd have a very different opinion.