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by coldtea 2916 days ago
>.NET, Java are good COBOL replacements.

Not even close.

As for the links, those are still about COBOL the language.
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pjmlp 2916 days ago
I guess you need to inform yourself about migration projects that use those products to bring COBOL codebases to modern platforms, where new features are then written in Java/.NET languages, while the old working code is left as is.
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coldtea 2916 days ago
Nobody argued that new features could be "written in Java/.NET languages".

Not even that COBOL codebases could be bridged and work "left as is" alongside those.

The main objection was with the word "good".

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pjmlp 2916 days ago
Except you have your definition of "good" and I have mine.

This statement is meaningless without additional information.

> COBOL has no decent replacements.

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