Loduz_247@lemmy.world to Bluesky@lemmy.worldEnglish · 7 days agoA COBOL programmer explains that this migration is impossible without catastrophe unless they want to destroy social security.lemmy.worldimagemessage-square49fedilinkarrow-up1554arrow-down15
arrow-up1549arrow-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 · 7 days agomessage-square49fedilink
minus-squarejmcs@discuss.tchncs.delinkfedilinkarrow-up26·7 days 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-27 days 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