Information Technology

U.S. Government Accountability Office. (2016). Information Technology: Federal Agencies Need to Address Aging Legacy Systems (GAO-16-468).

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Report

Intellectual base

Grey literature

Year

2016

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Domain-specific

• Lehman's law of continuing change
  • First written in assembly language in the early 1960s, the IMF is the authoritative record of individual taxpayer accounts, and it has required continuous patching ever since — not because the old code physically rots, but because tax law is rewritten every year, payment rails modernize, and the partner systems the IMF integrates with keep changing

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