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> There are 800 billion lines of COBOL code out there supporting today’s mission critical business applications. That means one terrific opportunity for you. y
by gchaincl 3y ago
> There are 800 billion lines of COBOL code out there supporting today’s mission critical business applications. That means one terrific opportunity for you.
yes, rewrite them on a modern language!
- 4ggr0 3y ago(I'm a System Engineer, not a programmer) - Don't you need to understand a language, to understand a program, in order to be able to rewrite it to a different language?
- mmcdermott 3y agoProbably not to write the new code, but almost certainly to reverse-engineer all the requirements that no one remembers.
- gchaincl 3y agoI'm a native spanish speaker. When I hear Italian or Portuguese I can understand most of it, butnI wouldn't be able to formulate a proper sentence. The same happens with programming language, you can get the semantic without knowing the syntax just because you know how to program, and of course, you can read specific syntax documentation (the dictionary) when something is not clear.