Re: Cobol/C

[Wayne Schlitt <wayne@backbone.midwestcs.com>]

In <[🔎] ciccio-961216103247.A013177@parker.dasding> ciccio <ciccio@arrakis.es> writes:

> 
> Does anybody know of a package that performas a convertion
> from cobol to C? (Something like p2c, f2c, etc)


I have heard of commercial packages that claim to be able to translate
Cobol to C, but I have never heard of a freely available one.

Translating Cobol to C is simply a very hard thing to do.  C doesn't
support many of the things that are built into Cobol, such as packed
decimal arithmetic, accessing databases, etc.  Yes, you can get
packages that let C do the similar things, but it still isn't an easy
translation.  This is especially true if you want to use the resulting
C code for more than just an intermediate step of "compiling the
Cobol" program.


I have heard of simplistic freely available Cobol interpreters for
Unix, but I don't think they are good enough to be used in a serious
way.


-wayne



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