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Re:How an Engineering Company Chose to Migrate to D by pjmlp on Thursday June 21, 2018 @04:32AM (#17363176)
I guess you need to inform yourself about migration projects that use those products to bring COBOL codebases to modern platforms, where new features are then written in Java/.NET languages, while the old working code is left as is.
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Re:How an Engineering Company Chose to Migrate to D by coldtea on Thursday June 21, 2018 @08:11AM (#17364351)
Nobody argued that new features could be "written in Java/.NET languages".

Not even that COBOL codebases could be bridged and work "left as is" alongside those.

The main objection was with the word "good".

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Re:How an Engineering Company Chose to Migrate to D by pjmlp on Thursday June 21, 2018 @08:26AM (#17364442)
Except you have your definition of "good" and I have mine.

This statement is meaningless without additional information.

> COBOL has no decent replacements.

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