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Inheritance (sh.itjust.works)

submitted 1 year ago by pcouy@sh.itjust.works to c/programmerhumor@lemmy.ml

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[–] TAG@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Modern frameworks don't help with business logic corner cases. You would want to carefully analyze the algorithms of the legacy code and rewrite same logic in a new language. Even then, the same logic operators don't work the same in every language (automatic type conversions, truthiness of non-boolean types).

[–] shadowolf@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 year ago

Outside of looking a Cobol once or twice I have almost zero working knowledge of the language. But still this feels like something a transpiler could handle. Or maybe a next gen LLM if direct translation of the source isn't desirable but just the core logic