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Microfocus 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 t
by ecshafer 9y ago
Microfocus 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 9y 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.