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I suppose this is encouraging in a "at least the damage is widespread" sort of way - India has some morons in the IT sector as well:

One of India's biggest offshoring players has launched software it promises will make programmers all but unnecessary in converting legacy applications to modern programming languages.

Mahindra British Telecom (MBT) said on Thursday it is putting the finishing touches on software that almost completely automates the process of converting legacy applications written in languages such as Cobol, Pascal, Delphi and Smalltalk to modern languages such as C, C++ and Java.

The Mumbai-based company is a joint venture between Indian technology group Mahindra & Mahindra and UK telco British Telecommunications. It has development centres in the UK and India and specialises in applications outsourcing and offshoring for the telecoms industry.

*Cough* modern? C, or C++? Which planet does this guy live on, and has it escaped the late 80's yet? Java? Here, let me show you a system that uses BlockClosures - can the bright boys at Mahindra show me what kind of unmaintainable crap that will generate? Sheesh. I suppose this indicates that the Indian software sector is maturing - they are now generating people incompetent enough to work here. Hat tip to Christopher Petrilli for spotting this silliness.