Loduz_247@lemmy.world to Bluesky@lemmy.worldEnglish · 9 months agoA COBOL programmer explains that this migration is impossible without catastrophe unless they want to destroy social security.lemmy.worldimagemessage-square46fedilinkarrow-up1544arrow-down14
arrow-up1540arrow-down1imageA COBOL programmer explains that this migration is impossible without catastrophe unless they want to destroy social security.lemmy.worldLoduz_247@lemmy.world to Bluesky@lemmy.worldEnglish · 9 months agomessage-square46fedilink
minus-squarejmcs@discuss.tchncs.delinkfedilinkarrow-up26·9 months agoThat would be too competent, since that’s how real migrations work - you wrap COBOL in something that can integrate with more modern programming languages and replace it bit by bit, though hopefully not in JavaScript.
minus-squareKecessa@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkarrow-up4·edit-29 months agoYeah, use [Java, C, Assembly, PHP…] instead
That would be too competent, since that’s how real migrations work - you wrap COBOL in something that can integrate with more modern programming languages and replace it bit by bit, though hopefully not in JavaScript.
Yeah, use [Java, C, Assembly, PHP…] instead