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Re:Unsupervised translation of programming languages by avsteele on Tuesday June 09, 2020 @08:18PM (#23472518)
Related: An IRS employee reportedly got 90% of their assembler (yes really) code translated to JAVA. IRS strangely abandoned the project.

https://federalnewsnetwork.com/tom-temin-commentary/2020/01/...

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Re:Unsupervised translation of programming languages by cheschire on Wednesday June 10, 2020 @03:16AM (#23474757)
Any developer with more than a few years of experience knows the first 90% is the easy part though.
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Re:Unsupervised translation of programming languages by coolgeek on Wednesday June 10, 2020 @10:20AM (#23477272)
This is code from the 60s/70s running on IBM mainframes.

It should not be surprising that it is written in Assembler, given those factors and the performance advantages over the alternatives.

I was writing new 370 Assembler in the 90s for high throughput electronic pre-press systems.

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Re:Unsupervised translation of programming languages by WalterGR on Wednesday June 10, 2020 @12:45PM (#23479175)
Was it by hand or automated? I couldn’t penetrate the gossip and court intrigue on that site.
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