I have never worked with cobol. The coolest thing about mainframes I heard was that you could pull out a broken cpu (without stopping it) and plug in a new one

I have never worked with cobol. The coolest thing about mainframes I heard was that you could pull out a broken cpu (without stopping it) and plug in a new one. No idea if it’s true. There are projects like: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/GnuCOBOL https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/GnuCOBOL That eats COBOL and spits out C. I am surprised no one has written a eat cobol and spit out python/Java. I know it’s a weird-ish language that is meant to read like text. I guess it must be hard. Getting away from legacy code is no fun.