Re: Cobol for linux
On Fri, 16 Jan 2004 17:26:16 -0600, Alex Malinovich wrote:
> On Fri, 2004-01-16 at 06:16, Leandro Guimarães Faria Corcete Dutra
> wrote:
>> Em Sex, 2004-01-16 às 10:21, Tiji Thomas escreveu:
>> > does any one know about cobol for linux
>>
>> http://google.com./search?q=tinycobol
>>
>> MicroFocus might have something, or even IBM perhaps.
>
> Tiny Cobol is the only Linux compiler that I've used thus far as it was
> the only free and more or less full-featured one I could find. It does
> have a few weird quirks from what I'm used to from MicroFocus compilers,
> such as comments starting in column 2, instead of column 7. Also, any
> time I've tried using an EVALUATE statement I've gotten a segmentation
> fault during compilation.
>
> So consider yourself warned that it might not have all the functionality
> you might want. It does, however, come pre-packaged for debian, so you
> can use dpkg to install it without any major problems.
Hah, I've been looking for an interesting project to occupy my spare time.
Looks like writing a COBOL compiler might be it :)
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....................paul
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