cobol_to_elixir VS perceptronCobol

as an outsider (and thus potentially ignorant of pitfalls): I'm a big fan of the strategy to add transpilers to modern languages so that we can start writing new code in them, have them output COBOL, and then eventually have enough of the codebase written in the new lang to swap over to it instead.

I'm thinking of the Elixir->COBOL like this: https://github.com/TheFirstAvenger/cobol_to_elixir

Was speaking with the author about a year ago and he was having really good success with it.

I used to work in a bank with people that came from mainframes. They use to talk about Cobol and how it was a well paid job, cause of the lack of programmers.

As a way of learning the language I end up writing a perceptron in it [1]. It was a fun exercise.

1 - https://github.com/victorqribeiro/perceptronCobol

I don't know if this could be considered "learning" in the sense that you mean, but I chose code that I wrote in a familiar language and re-wrote it in Cobol. It was fun and I end up learning a lot.

https://github.com/victorqribeiro/perceptronCobol