Re:COBOL – Still standing the test of time
by cyberCleve on Wednesday September 15, 2021 @06:46PM
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I would imagine part of the reason is because even if you have a trained COBOL maintainer, they still have to learn and understand the actual business logic of the application. Learning the language is not even half the battle. Maintaining old often undocumented code is a hard task in any language.
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Re:COBOL – Still standing the test of time
by notimrelakatos on Thursday September 16, 2021 @07:16AM
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Indeed, I've once met someone who migrated a COBOL project to Java, the biggest complain wasn't even the Language itself, but extracting business logic from a 40-year old spaghetti codebase. Sometimes bugs where part of the business logic itself and other developers who consumed the monstrosity had to make corrections on their side.