If they can't believe a ton of government HR infrastructure still runs on COBOL, wait till the cool Data Science kids find out just how much of their ML, AI, and model fitting kit sits on top of a bunch of FORTRAN libraries.
What, you were expecting a statewide payroll or benefits system to be written in Javascript or Rust and spun up on an AWS instance or something?
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