Re: cobol compiler/gui dev enviroment
On Wed, Oct 24, 2007 at 08:24:40AM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote:
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> > I'll bite: why do you need COBOL? You've go C, Fortran, and Ada in
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> Because apps written in COBOL are highly portable across platforms.
Only if the platform has a COBOL compiler, which I think is the problem
under discussion. Ada is highly portable.
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> > gcc, plus Python (interpreted). IIUC, the philosophy behind COBOL is
> > that non-programmers can at least read it to understand what is
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> That bit of stupidness went out the window decades ago.
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> > 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.
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> I'd hate to see that C code.
Thats the design decision that was made for f77 which has been abandoned
but gfortran 95 isn't fully functional yet (according to its own docs).
Doug.
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