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Neat article. I am quite old but never touched COBOL (they used Java to teach in Uni). There are so many articles about the failures of transitioning on legac
by Tistel 8y ago
Neat article. I am quite old but never touched COBOL (they used Java to teach in Uni). There are so many articles about the failures of transitioning on legacy system to a modern one. Like that British bank going over to a Spanish one (TSB?). Does anyone know of success stories? What were their techniques/strategies?
When I hear about the COBOL line count it always makes me think that someone should write a program that eats COBOL as input and spits out Java/C++/LangDuJour as output. Might make a good company. Mind you, it may already exist, or, be impossible because of some aspect of the COBOL language I don't understand.
- Tistel 8y agonever mind: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GnuCOBOL https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GnuCOBOL
- ecshafer 8y agoMicrofocus has a cobol to jvm transpiler. Issue is that cobol often relies on intricacies of specific mainframes or cobol implementations so it's never quite that simple. Also a lot of cobol directly interfaces with databases with side effects which makes it ever harder.
- tolle 8y agoMicro Focus is an interesting company. And apparently very profitable. From a smallish company making tools for mainframe development and consultancy to now owning HP Enterprise and a whole bunch of other companies as well. They're raking it in money wise.