As someone who was involved in projects to wrap or replace legacy COBOL, I laugh in their general direction. I have a strong suspicion they think they are just going to feed the COBOL into Grok and translate it all to Java, and bingo.
Yah Laddie, not so fast
Matthew Loxton
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