Re:Software Is Drowning the World
by diroussel on Sunday January 10, 2021 @09:36AM
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This is not only possible but has been done commercially.
I have a friend that contracted for a company doing y2k work. The main guy have written a system to parse cobol, do pattern matching to find y2k issues, apply transforms to the AST to fix the problems and the serialise back to cobol.
It supported a dozen of so cobol variants. I think it was very successful.
I have a friend that contracted for a company doing y2k work. The main guy have written a system to parse cobol, do pattern matching to find y2k issues, apply transforms to the AST to fix the problems and the serialise back to cobol.
It supported a dozen of so cobol variants. I think it was very successful.