Re: Rewriting SSA. Is This A Chance For GNU/Linux?

On 4/1/25 3:30 PM, Robert Heller wrote:

Yes, one of the things I did when I was working at UMass was to convert some
FORTRAN code to C and yes, automated tool commonly did either a poor job or
created code that was not maintainable or readable.  (And some of the code
needed to be made multi-threaded for parallelization.)

   You're pretty much right.
   Note also that the 'COBOL' all those old apps
   were written in were often kinda custom for
   ONE kind of antique box. NOT GNU "COBOL".
   Any re-writes ... use PYTHON. Yep, a lot of
   people will hate me for saying that but there
   are several good reasons.
   Alas it will have to be done line by line,
   by competent HUMANS.
   Note that old COBOL code has probably been
   rudely patched and tweaked over and over and
   over since 1965 ...... MESS !!!