Re: cobol compiler/gui dev enviroment
On Tue, Oct 23, 2007 at 08:34:15PM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote:
> 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?
> >
> >
> > 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.
I'll bite: why do you need COBOL? You've go C, Fortran, and Ada in
gcc, plus Python (interpreted). IIUC, the philosophy behind COBOL is
that non-programmers can at least read it to understand what is
happening. You can achieve that with Python if you're careful. Also, I
believe its one of the minor goals of Ada.
Of course, if you _need_ a COBOL compiler, you _need_ COBOL. It seems
that OpenCOBOL traslates COBOL to C and then compiles that with gcc.
Doug.
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