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German railway seeks IT admin to manage MS-DOS and Windows 3.11 systems
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this post was submitted on 30 Jan 2024
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If it works, why would we want to go through the trouble of switching to another language that will also eventually be regarded as needing to be retired? There's decades of debugging and improvement done on their system, start over with a new system and all that work needs to be done again but with a programming language that's probably much more complex and that leaves the door open to more mistakes...