16 Jun
2026
16 Jun
'26
7:59 p.m.
On Tue, 2026-06-16 at 21:39 -0400, Ken Seefried via cctalk wrote:
"we have the magic beans that will translate your
COBOL
code into <new hot language du jour> so your business logic will
totally
without fail port over (pinky swear) and you don't have to pay for
those
smelly old mainframe coders but only fresh young (cheap) newbies"
Honeywell provided a COBOL to Ada translator more than forty years ago.
I don't know whether anybody actually used it.