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Inheritance (sh.itjust.works)
submitted 3 years ago by to c/programmerhumor@lemmy.ml
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[–] 0 points 3 years ago (1 child)

Mission critical code. There are decades of bug fixes. The biggest cost of rewriting it is a risk of errors in the logic.

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  • [–] 0 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    I can understand that, the fear of moving and the logic being ruined. I wonder how much modern frameworks could cut down the codebase though

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  • [–] 0 points 3 years ago* (1 child)

    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).

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  • [–] -1 points 3 years 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

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