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    7 hours ago

    The greatest and most vital of government secrets are safe. Because no chance any of those kids understand fortran or cobol.

    They’ll just delete it rather than try to understand or modify it. But small victories.

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      It will come back as an electron react app that uses web sockets to synchronise embedded sqlite databases

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        That is the beautiful part of it. It is a fundamental brain block in like 99.999999% of “The Children”.

        In an old life I had to deal with this. Maybe one in every hundred interns we had realized how similar matlab and fortran were. The rest just immediately locked down because it wasn’t python or, in rare cases, C++.