Description: COBOL Migration
.net (11122) java (6043) c# (3612) transformation (2141) migration (929) cobol (188) modernization (82)
Code Search (Find, Follow), Analysis (Metrics, Static, Dynamic, Bugs) and Change (Modernization, Migration, Generation, Optimization, Rearchitecting)
Migrating COBOL to new languages such as Java or C#/.Net promises the following nice properties: removing the stranglehold of the legacy hardware and the cost of the lease/licensing costs, making the application more maintainable, and providing the organization with access to more easily found software engineers.
The first concern is, What will translated code look like? Weak translators convert code blindly line-by-line, with virtually no understanding of how the context of the code should shape its translation. Such translated code preserves the properties of the original COBOL, sometime the point of even preserving the syntax. Even if such code works, it not be maintainable and will ultimately cost the organization sorely. ( You can see here the results of weak translator, not from SD , to compare to the results