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2026-10-19 14:30 UTC

OpenAI boosts COBOL, Fortran, Visual Basic migration tools

OpenAI boosts COBOL, Fortran, Visual Basic migration tools

According to OpenAI via its blog and X post, its latest model advances improve building and migrating software in COBOL, Fortran, and Visual Basic to help enterprises modernize legacy systems while preserving business logic.

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OpenAI announced advances in model capabilities for building and migrating software in low-resource programming languages including COBOL, Fortran, and Visual Basic.

These languages support critical systems at banks, governments, and businesses, and the updates focus on preserving existing business logic while enabling modernization, based directly on challenges from developers and enterprise customers, see OpenAI announcement on low-resource programming languages.

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