No Time to Die... from COVID-19

[robkelk]

Anybody here know COBOL and live in NJ?

The governor of New Jersey has asked COBOL-capable coders to volunteer their skills as the State’s mainframe computers have struggled to cope with a surge of requests for benefits to help citizens through the coronavirus crisis.

In his daily press briefing on April 4th, governor Phil Murphy said: “In our list of volunteers not only do we need health care workers but given the legacy systems we should add a page for cobalt [sic] computer skills, because that's what we're dealing with in these legacies.”

As Murphy’s April 4th remarks suggests, technical debt has come back to bite the State’s Department of Labor and Workforce at the least-convenient possible moment.