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Feds: Critical Software Must Drop C/C++ by 2026 or Face Risk
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this post was submitted on 01 Nov 2024
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... Are the Feds aware that the core systems that many, many older companies (and government agencies) use are still based on COBOL?
Is... is that not of any concern?
Is COBOL subject to buffer overflows and use-after-free bugs? I honestly don’t know.
I don’t recall the COBOL code I’ve read using pointers.
The problem I am aware of is moreso that the number of programmers that know COBOL is vanishingly small, it ... COBOL does not seem to really be taught anymore...
...so if something goes wrong at that level, you may be SOL if you cannot find an increasingly rare programmer that knows COBOL well.
The article says this isn’t to affect existing code.