Still a bogus argument, since the birth dates should not be allowed to default to anything. They must be verified!
PS:
I was actually a COBOL (and FORTRAN) programmer and systems analyst / project leader in an "earlier life". Designed many government and insurance systems with date of birth as a personal data field. The date of birth did not default to anything!
** How can you have a verified person / identity without a date of birth?!? **
There are many people with the same or similar names. You have nothing nobody with just a name and no DOB. SHEESH!
These are hypothetical persons, not real persons, until you can establish a unique identity.
Maybe when they told us to learn to code, they should have specified the language. Does anyone even teach Cobol anymore? Right next door to the Fortran and Pascal classes?
Here is what the left is saying……thoughts? https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2025/2/14/2303889/-Nope-There-are-no-150-year-olds-on-Social-Security-It-s-COBOL
So why are they still using COBOL??
Still a bogus argument, since the birth dates should not be allowed to default to anything. They must be verified!
PS:
I was actually a COBOL (and FORTRAN) programmer and systems analyst / project leader in an "earlier life". Designed many government and insurance systems with date of birth as a personal data field. The date of birth did not default to anything!
** How can you have a verified person / identity without a date of birth?!? ** There are many people with the same or similar names. You have nothing nobody with just a name and no DOB. SHEESH!
These are hypothetical persons, not real persons, until you can establish a unique identity.
So their new excuse is muh-Cobol?
Maybe when they told us to learn to code, they should have specified the language. Does anyone even teach Cobol anymore? Right next door to the Fortran and Pascal classes?