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Quite a few companies have specialized in migrating COBOL to C# or Java code, so I’m not surprised. I wonder why they choose those languages as one-trick ponies
by rhabarba 6y ago
Quite a few companies have specialized in migrating COBOL to C# or Java code, so I’m not surprised. I wonder why they choose those languages as one-trick ponies though. Seems like the “we only have a hammer” problem.
- dividedbyzero 6y agoI guess because it's very very likely the rest of the custom internal systems is already written in one of those languages, they are both used a lot in such contexts.
- retrac 6y agoJava would be the safest bet for the "other" language known by a COBOL programmer.
- testrun 6y agoWhy?