> Fun (scary) fact – significant portions of the IRS tax system is still written in assembly. It's basically the original codebase plus 40 years of additions and patches as the tax code changed.
> They were working on projects to "elevate" it to Java, because it's pretty difficult to maintain it as-is.
Yeah, apparently an eight person IRS development team nearly developed a replacement, but the main developers were hired on a special program to pay them at above-GSA rates, and that program expired before they could put it into production:
> They were working on projects to "elevate" it to Java, because it's pretty difficult to maintain it as-is.
Yeah, apparently an eight person IRS development team nearly developed a replacement, but the main developers were hired on a special program to pay them at above-GSA rates, and that program expired before they could put it into production:
https://federalnewsradio.com/tom-temin-commentary/2018/01/ir...