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Written by Paul_stilgar on 2025-02-04 at 13:49

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…As Nathan Tankus, the go-to expert on these matters, says,

100% believe that the primary barrier to Elon Musk gaining control of the Treasury payments system is COBOL.

...COBOL is a very old programming language that was once pervasive in the business world but in which hardly anyone under 60 knows how to program...

wait until they find that they run on EBCDIC systems with comp-3 packed decimal numbers.

[#]usa #musk #coup

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