refneb's comments

On: Ask HN: COBOL devs, how are AI coding affecting your work?

[refneb]

Hey now, that COM based rot paid for my house and kid’s college expenses.

[egorfine → refneb]

Not anymore. AI actually does this part much better.

On: COBOL has been “dead” for so long, my grandpa wrote about it

[refneb]

How did that go? My employer is going to try snd evaluate watsonx product. Have you had any luck converting large/complex COBOL modules ?

[artificialLimbs → refneb]

Don’t know about COBOL, but we recently threw some ancient RPG 3 programs into ChatGPT for conversion to both ‘plain English’ and PHP and it got pretty close - maybe 80-90%.

On: Let's write a compiler, part 5: A code generator

[refneb]

I’ve been playing with ANTLR[1] and pretty happy with the generated parser. You can find sql grammar on GitHub[2]

[1] https://www.antlr.org/

[2] https://github.com/antlr/grammars-v4

On: Ask HN: What's your quarantine side project?

[refneb]

I finished machine learning course on coursera. Also making a lot of bread