Comment by mrbombastic

2 years ago

I wonder if a better goal would be valid translation of the COBOL into X language. Obviously that has its own can of worms but it seems like our goal generally should be getting critical systems to more modern languages that can be maintained more easily.

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sanxiyn  2 years ago

In 2009, 4 million lines of COBOL were migrated to Java using an automatic translator.

https://www.infoq.com/news/2009/07/cobol-to-java/

  • kamma4434  2 years ago

    The problem is not translation - once it is ported to Java, who will maintain it? It has no specs, no tests, and it’s a spaghetti mess. Is any weirdness a bug or a feature? Nobody knows. Least of all the body-rental remote devs you hired to maintain it.