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by stevenjgarner 1477 days ago
... 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/