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I'd imagine so, I just knew about the dutch railways for certain. IIRC they are doing a mechanized translation from COBOL to C++. The idea being to first test t
by Doxin 4y ago
I'd imagine so, I just knew about the dutch railways for certain. IIRC they are doing a mechanized translation from COBOL to C++. The idea being to first test that exhaustively, and then slowly manually translate the COBOL-y-C++ to more idiomatic C++.
- rramadass 4y ago>they are doing a mechanized translation from COBOL to C++. That sounds interesting; do you mean that they are converting the current working system written in COBOL to C++ using a transpiler? Do you have any links to more information on this?
- Doxin 4y agoI do mean that. I can't find it now, but I read it some years ago in a news article. The project was slated to run for a loooong time so I've assumed it's still going on. Sorry I can't be of more help wrt sources.
- rramadass 4y agoNo problem, a search for "COBOL to C++ transpiler" actually brings up a couple of companies which is interesting. But how do they verify the resultant output? Mere testing cannot be enough for critical systems software.