[gen220]

This won't make you feel any better...

Many healthcare systems are a COBOL-dialect all the way at the bottom. Some of these had PHP layers shimmed in, when the web became a thing.

I've seen php scripts that shell out to .bat's, that interface with the COBOL engine. It's a mad world.

For context, a large amount of healthtech software was written in the 80s (kind of like fintech, the difference is that there's no competitive advantage to having better technology in health).

It's a minor miracle that anything works at all.

[ch4s3]

I showed someone from the Allscripts innovation group what I could do in an Elixir repl once, and his jaw hit the floor. Then I showed him how we wrote parsers. He said we'd never make it because we turned around new features too fast for anyone to trust us.