17 Feb
2015
17 Feb
'15
9:27 p.m.
I've rewritten cobol into C a few times when I was
a big enthusiast
of C and the C code was longer and harder to maintain.
That is no surprise to me. If you were to take code written in C and
translate it into COBOL, I'd generally expect the COBOL code to be
longer and harder to maintain, too.
Indeed, I'd expect that for pretty much any pair of languages;
translating code out of the idiom it was written for generally makes it
larger and harder to understand.
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