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Re:Ask YC: What are starting salaries for CS grads this year? by tomjen on Thursday May 01, 2008 @02:57AM (#178180)
Just write a cobol to java compiler and be done with it.
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Re:Ask YC: What are starting salaries for CS grads this year? by NonEUCitizen on Thursday May 01, 2008 @06:06AM (#178286)
he may not have to write one himself:

  http://www.jazillian.com/howCOBOL.html
disclaimer: i don't know cobol and have never tried this.
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Re:Ask YC: What are starting salaries for CS grads this year? by rms on Thursday May 01, 2008 @09:58AM (#178409)
That is a consulting company, not a software product.
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Re:Ask YC: What are starting salaries for CS grads this year? by rms on Thursday May 01, 2008 @06:46PM (#179047)
I talked to him, he said that there are a bunch out there already and they'll be using them to aid in the process. But there's still work to be done, there are a lot of legacy systems that need to have optimized/readable code.
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