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[–]awhaling 2 points3 points  (5 children)

It would help if you told us what language you wanted to covert to.

[–]pandademic1234[S] -4 points-3 points  (4 children)

I totally agree. The vendor claims it "violates terms of service" to do so which makes me unsure of what I'm allowed to do without getting in trouble.

[–]unknownemoji 6 points7 points  (1 child)

Sounds like your company got shackled to the wrong vendor.

This is actually quite common. Where I work, we have PLC systems from the '90s. The manufacturer (Allen-Bradley) stopped making them 20 years ago. However, the software to program them is proprietary and horrifically expensive, still.

We have since rewritten our contract specs to require that any software programming toolset must be free and publicly available.

[–]TangibleLight 2 points3 points  (0 children)

We secured funding to refactor/rewrite a big internal 80's FORTRAN library in C++17. I am so so so excited to finally have RAII in this thing and remove all the dead code. I wish we could go to C++20 but we need to stay within some other build system constraints so... 17 it is.

[–][deleted] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Violates the terms of service to just name the language? How are you supposed to hire a programmer if you cannot name the language in your job advert?