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

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127 points Anon84 | 2 comments | 03 Dec 23 16:31 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source
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apstats ◴[03 Dec 23 18:15 UTC] No.38509335[source]▶
I feel like this solution was written by someone who hasn’t built software before. Doing a rewrite for the sake of a rewrite is not a good idea.
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high_5 ◴[03 Dec 23 18:21 UTC] No.38509391[source]▶
So... Having no COBOL devs left is a better one? What's the alternative then?
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1. apstats ◴[03 Dec 23 18:41 UTC] No.38509551[source]▶
Yes - if we need them to people can learn COBOL it's not any harder to learn than many other programming languages.
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