I&#x27;m reminded of what Philip Greenspun wrote back in 1997:<p>&quot;Corporations have gotten burned so many times by buggy C&#x2F;Fortran&#x2F;COBOL programs that they aren&#x27;t willing to take risks. They pay Oracle a huge ransom and suffer what is sometimes a factor of 1000 in reduced performance just so that they are sure to never lose a transaction.&quot;