I was just watching Treasury Secretary Bessent on Ingraham and he said that the 12 or so computer systems at the IRS are running on COBOL, an obsolete programming language. People COBOL was invented in 1959 and was one of the two computer languages in vogue when I was in college 60+ years ago. It was the language used by businesses and financial institutions etc. The other language was FORTRAN which is the one I knew and used because it was the one used in math and science etc. Personally I don’t know why anyone would ever use COBOL because I could do the same thing in FORTRAN with a third or less lines of code.

Anyway, my point is that this is exactly why we need Musk and his nerd wizards to clean up the mess. I saw when I was looking up COBOL that they are actively searching for people who are literate in it because of all the antiquated systems that need to be maintained.

It reminds me of that space movie where they had to bring back old astronauts like Bruce Willis and others because they needed people who were familiar with whatever antiquated computer language that was required.