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AnnoDomini is a source-to-source conversion tool for making COBOL programs Year 2000 compliant. It is technically and conceptually built upon type-theoretic techniques and methods: type-based specification, program analysis by type inference and type-directed transformation. These are combined into an integrated software reengineering tool and method for finding and fixing Year 2000 problems. AnnoDomini's primary goals have been flexibility (support for multiple year representations), completeness (identifying all potential Year 2000 problems), correctness (correct fixes for Year 2000 problems) and a high degree of safe automation in all phases (declarative specification of conversions, no second-guessing or dangerous heuristics).In this paper we present the type-theoretic foundations of AnnoDomini: type system, type inference, unification theory, semantic soundness, and correctness of conversion. We also describe how these foundations have been applied and extended to a common COBOL mainframe dialect, and how AnnoDomini is packaged with graphical user interface and syntax-sensitive editor into a commercially available software tool.
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