On 5/24/19 9:08 AM, Paul Sutton wrote:
> As I am trying to promote contributing to Debian, what programming
> languages are mostly used?
C, perl, java, ruby, python, bash, that I know of. And probably several
others. I don't recall seeing any COBOL, though :-)
> OpenCOBOL implements substantial part of the COBOL 85 and
> COBOL 2002 standards, as well as many extensions of the existent
> compilers. OpenCOBOL translates COBOL into C and compiles
> the translated code using GCC.
I may even Install this on my Stretch System, to bring back memories of my IBM Mainframe Days, where I programmed, often heavily in COBOL, from 1974 to 1986.
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