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		neilv on July 18, 2021 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: BANCStar (2000) To write a translator, for migrating a legacy code base from this to a higher-level source language and libraries, seems like it would be fun. It could be for incrementally building onto and evolving the legacy system in a higher-level language. Or it could be used for reverse-engineering the legacy system, as reference documentation for developing new implementations from scratch.

fistynuts on July 18, 2021 | [–]

The LIST utility would probably help here https://github.com/jloughry/BANCStar#the-list-utility

omgwtfbyobbq on July 18, 2021 | [–]

I think it would be. Even writing something to translate source between different versions can be fairly interesting.

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