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Re: cobol compiler/gui dev enviroment



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On 10/23/07 20:08, David Fox wrote:
> On 10/23/07, Chris Parker <chris_parker@adelphia.net> wrote:
>> Hello all,
>>
>> Does anyone know of a good cobol compiler and gui development
>> enviroment?  I have seen open-cobol as a compiler, but was wondering if
>> anyone has any other recommendations?
> 
> 01                     SORRY                       PIC XX    VALUE "NO".
> 
> :)
> 
> I've not yet heard of an open cobol, seems that it might be
> interesting. Last I checked, there was
> a tiny cobol compiler that I got somewhere on the net but don't have
> it anymore and can't remember where I got it.

Correct.  COBOL* is so complicated a language, and so anti-geeky,
that no one has really had an itch to create a full COBOL
environment.  You'll have to pony up the coin for a commercial compiler.

* And it's soulmate PL/I.

- --
Ron Johnson, Jr.
Jefferson LA  USA

Give a man a fish, and he eats for a day.
Hit him with a fish, and he goes away for good!

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