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COBOL to Kotlin via Formal Models (IR and Alloy and Golden Master)

https://marcoeg.medium.com/from-cobol-to-kotlin-795920b1f371
26•marcoeg•5d ago

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marcoeg•5d ago
I’ve been experimenting with formal, verifiable modernization and taking a small COBOL batch program and translating it through an intermediate representation and Alloy formal model into Kotlin, while proving equivalence with the legacy output.

Repo: https://github.com/marcoeg/cobol-modernization-playbook

Would love feedback from people who’ve worked on reverse engineering or legacy transformations at scale.

marcoeg•5d ago
Source code: https://github.com/marcoeg/cobol-modernization-playbook
dfboyd•36m ago
Isn't the first code sample pasted in there twice?
Jtsummers•3m ago
Yes, starting at:

  STOP RUN.```cobol
Then the code repeats.

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