What is the title promising that it doesn ' t deliver ? <| sep |> Well , they ' ve moved on to We need to murder those who fraternized with people who have fraternized with the enemy at this point , and the main leftist subs have ceased to do much but talk about killing enemies and fighting over labels . Not much talk of socialism or anarchism . <| sep |> I smoked them . that ' s credit in of itself . <| sep |> You ' re simply not going to be able to replace the raw performance of COBOL in processing transactions on a mainframe with Java they ' re two completely different beasts . That ' s pretty nonsensical . The reason the phasing out those systems is done slowly is because they ' re complex . It ' s nonsensical that those ancient beasts are ' fast '. It ' s the opposite actually . Like I said I work at the largest Dutch bank . The lack of speed of the ancient systems is a huge problem and one of the reasons they ' ve accelerated the phasing out of the old systems . OK , but so what ? What ' s the context ? Lack of work simply . They had more COBOL devs than needed .