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I am not referring to some sort of gateway, ESB, etc. I am referring to the patent application, which would be for a tool to port code from Assembly to another

• andrewstuart2 6y ago
  I'm not sure what ALB assembly is, but I do know disassemblers themselves are kinda rare (which this really isn't either; more of a disassembler+transpiler). On top of that, whatever ALB assembly is, it kinda sounds like there might be only a market of one or two places in the world using it. Remember, they're saying these systems were put in place in the 60s and 70s. In 1960, COBOL was the new hotness -- modern day Go has 5 years more maturity than COBOL had in 1960, and there was no internet yet. Even ARPANET wouldn't be invented for another 9 years. Whatever was being written back then was not written by developers with the kind of access to information we have today. And definitely not with the kind of storage luxury we have today that permit us to document and comment as copiously as we want to.
  • antonvs 6y ago
    ALC (mentioned in the patent) is Assembly Language Coding, referring to various IBM mainframe assemblers. Disassemblers aren't rare, and certainly exist for the CPUs in question. But the patent is trying to produce structured Java code from handwritten assembly, which is definitely not something for which many OTS solutions exist.
• andi999 6y ago
  Maybe filing patents are generally encouraged for government jobs?
  • rbanffy 6y ago
    That's one way to prove output