[LINK] Schwarzenegger pay plans thwarted by COBOL

[David Boxall]

<http://www.vnunet.com/vnunet/news/2223408/schwarzenegger-pay-plans-cobol>
> Terminator brought down by ancient code
> California governor Arnold Schwarzenegger’s plans to reduce all state 
> employees pay to the minimum wage are being blocked because the 
> payroll system is run on COBOL.
...
> State Controller John Chiang told the Senate Committee on Governmental 
> Organization that this was impossible as the payroll system was 
> written 30 years ago in COBOL and there weren’t enough programmers to 
> do the job.
-- 
David Boxall | Any given program,
| when running correctly,
| is obsolete.
| --Arthur C. Clarke