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It is faster. Seriously as a teenager I FORTRAN would run circles around everything but Assembly. It is still in use even in R and many statistic languages/programs (Why reinvent the wheel)

COBOL needs to DIEEEEEE!!!!!!!!!!!

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Lets make a COBOL transpiler and run the mainframe legacy code on top of asm.js

I kind of want to write up a buzzword filled pitch and see if management bites.

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