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Re:Automated Refactoring of a U.S. Department of Defense Mai... by tantalor on Monday May 06, 2019 @12:07PM (#19840687)
But there seems to be no business purpose justifying that requirement. They spent 30 months writing and refining a COBOL-to-Java transpiler instead.

Maybe the business purpose was to waste time and bill clients?

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Re:Automated Refactoring of a U.S. Department of Defense Mai... by mooreds on Monday May 06, 2019 @12:26PM (#19840909)
Which requirement? Moving off COBOL?

They mentioned numerous times that COBOL work was harder to staff and maintain.

Seems like a good reason to move to me.

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