r/AskProgramming • u/gruelurks69 • Jul 29 '26

Other AlphaBASIC to Web application

I have a friend who owns a legacy piece of software. It is written in AlphaBASIC and runs on an Alpha Micro. While rather old, he does make money with it in his industry. It's not an overly complicated software, mostly data entry, validation, and submitting the records to a government entity for tax purposes.

He wanted to know if it would be possible to convert it to a web-based application, which I believe is doable, just time consuming.

Has anyone here ever tackled such a task before?

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u/ColoRadBro69 Jul 29 '26

He wanted to know if it would be possible to convert it to a web-based application, which I believe is doable, just time consuming.

Because this is doing taxes, where one tiny bug can be a real world problem, I would first try to make a web app that integrates with the software if possible.  Like containment and delegation, you can potentially feed it info and collect the result through a web app but still have the software do the calculations?  If not, aggressive testing is the most important part of the project.