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Watsonx: IBM's code assistant for turning COBOL into Java

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127 points Anon84 | 1 comments | 03 Dec 23 16:31 UTC | HN request time: 0.202s | source
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discmonkey ◴[03 Dec 23 17:18 UTC] No.38508712[source]▶
Classic misunderstanding of programming languages. The only thing stopping cobol from being "known" is these companies paying for it.
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mlhpdx ◴[03 Dec 23 17:44 UTC] No.38508990[source]▶
It’s more than that. If you spend a couple or more years learning to maintain those systems, where else will you work? Will you find a co-founder or investor for a COBOL based system when you go “entrepreneur”? Maybe, but it better be a damn strong niche.

Not moving forward with the software industry is a weird kind of conceit that separates these companies from the mainstream by far more than money.

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1. rightbyte ◴[03 Dec 23 18:26 UTC] No.38509423[source]▶
It still comes down to paying enough money for someone to do it. Pay me twice what I make now and I'll switch to coding absurd legacy all-caps COBOL systems in a heart beat. Probably less then that too.