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by stevenjgarner 1477 days ago
Well I must be wrong then, I was going to ask if it is not called a cross compiler? [1]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cross_compiler

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... 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/