@iamcheyan: Recently we were doing data migration and needed to build a comparison tool to verify the migration results. I said I could do it, and Python would be very suitable for this. But after a round of discussions, they decided to implement it in COBOL instead, claiming they've been using it for over 50 years... The ancestral methods must not change.

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When migrating data, the author proposed using Python to build a comparison tool, but the team insisted on using COBOL due to historical reasons (over 50 years of use), reflecting the inertia of legacy technology.

Recently we were doing data migration and needed to build a comparison tool to verify the migration results. I said I could do it, and Python would be very suitable for this. But after a round of discussions, they decided to implement it in COBOL instead, claiming they've been using it for over 50 years... The ancestral methods must not change.
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