... and wouldn't the most useful cross compiler to the world be COBOL to Python (or whatever)? "There are over 220 billion lines of COBOL in existence, a figure which equates to around 80% of the world's actively used code. There are estimated to be over a million COBOL programmers in the world today." [1]
[1] https://blog.codinghorror.com/cobol-everywhere-and-nowhere/