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by coldtea 2915 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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Except you have your definition of "good" and I have mine.

This statement is meaningless without additional information.

> COBOL has no decent replacements.