Chapter 17. Migrating Legacy Data
Let me lay out a frightening little scenario for you: It's 3 p.m. on a Friday afternoon, and most of the IT department is “working from home” already. You're about to join them when your manager rushes in and begins babbling incoherently about batch processes, missing data, and Web interfaces, and, most ominously, the word COBOL is thrown in there somewhere. This is ominous because you know that the only guy who actually knows COBOL is laid up in the hospital from a jousting-related accident he suffered at his last Society for Creative Anachronisms festival.
Unless you're already a COBOL/mainframe programmer (which I'm definitely not), your brain will tend to automatically shut down whenever someone says the ...
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