Brushing up COBOL skills. Once there were lots of projects which lots of IT companies took, to migrate from COBOL to JAVA, some were successful and some went ba

Brushing up COBOL skills. Once there were lots of projects which lots of IT companies took, to migrate from COBOL to JAVA, some were successful and some went back. COBOL is verbose, feels like writing English essay. Programs are huge todo, Java can reduce 25%-50% of code sometimes, python can reduce 90%(pythonic). What stands out, newer versions of COBOL will be upgraded and that old code will still work. New version is COBOL 6 : https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/cobol-v61-was-announced-whats-new https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/cobol-v61-was-announced-wh... I won't be surprised as IBM has bought redhat, now you can execute python programs in mainframe. Why not do all that machine learning ans be close to data instead of migrating to Hadoop.