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Re:I wrote a Brainfuck to Go compiler by stevenjgarner on Tuesday June 07, 2022 @07:06AM (#31652408)
... and wouldn't the most useful cross compiler to the world be COBOL to Python (or whatever)? "There are over 220 billion lines of COBOL in existence, a figure which equates to around 80% of the world's actively used code. There are estimated to be over a million COBOL programmers in the world today." [1]

[1] https://blog.codinghorror.com/cobol-everywhere-and-nowhere/

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