"Treasury's individual and business master files, the authoritative data sources for taxpayer information. The systems are about 56 years old, and use an outdated computer language that is difficult to write and maintain."
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3608228/Govt-report-Feds-spend-billions-run-ancient-technology.html
Hmm, I wonder what language that is. Cobol?
Update: The article appears to quote this GAO report: http://www.gao.gov/products/GAO-16-696T
And the "outdated computer language"? Assembly language. Wow.
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