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Re:COBOL has been "dead" for so long, my grandpa wrote about it by refneb on Tuesday October 01, 2024 @04:40PM (#41713867)
How did that go? My employer is going to try snd evaluate watsonx product. Have you had any luck converting large/complex COBOL modules ?
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Re:COBOL has been "dead" for so long, my grandpa wrote about it by artificialLimbs on Wednesday October 02, 2024 @05:17PM (#41725056)
Don’t know about COBOL, but we recently threw some ancient RPG 3 programs into ChatGPT for conversion to both ‘plain English’ and PHP and it got pretty close - maybe 80-90%.
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