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Could Python be used to re-build a banking mainframe written in COBOL?
by scottmcdot 4y ago
Could Python be used to re-build a banking mainframe written in COBOL?
- gattilorenz 4y agoyou could rebuild it in any turing-complete language, including Brainfuck. But why would you do that? I suspect there’s few good reasons for doing it (ease of finding new programmers) and many good reasons not to do it (speed, it’s code that has been battle-tested for ages). Anyway, from friends working in the banking sector, nowadays the mainframe code is exposing an API and users are accessing data via a web interface and not a terminal emulator anymore.
- tabtab 4y agoCOBOL has a lot of built in business and CRUD idioms that would require fairly large Python libraries to reinvent. COBOL is a domain-specific-language and Python isn't.