<i>&quot;All&quot; that needs to be done</i><p>&quot;Those nerds&quot; aren&#x27;t the ones calling the shots. The decisions are being made by the same people who want the company&#x27;s original 1970s COBOL application to keep running until the heat death of the universe. &quot;Those nerds&quot; would rewrite the thing if they were allowed to, but they&#x27;re not.<p>The Web has the same problem with ancient deployments that management thinks should just keep working unchanged for decades. The problem hasn&#x27;t been solved for the Web, and also hasn&#x27;t been solved in other fields, hence you still see listings for COBOL programmers.