Open Source COBOLs (was: Differences in data description in programm)

From: Lueko Willms (l.willms_at_jpberlin.de)
Date: 11/28/04 

Date: 28 Nov 2004 09:07:00 GMT

. On 28.11.04
  wrote jjgavan@shaw.ca (James J. Gavan)
     on /COMP/LANG/COBOL
     in H5bqd.372236$%k.327708@pd7tw2no
  about Re: Differences in data description in programming languages

JJG> Totally ignoring OO, because that's a 'biggie' to take on - what
JJG> features do they have actually running from the COBOL 2002 standard
JJG> ? That doesn't mean they have to be 1,000% COBOL 2002 compliant -
JJG> nobody else is ! For starters do they have the Intrinsic Functions
JJG> .What is their target market with, "It's not the final product, but
JJG> with this release.......". Are they seriously hoping to knock-off
JJG> AcuCorp, Fujitsu, Liant or Micro Focus.

    The last time I checked, Fujitsu COBOL prices start with 3'250
USD, which is quite hefty in my view.

    Tiny COBOL is meant to be free to use.

JJG> I've rarely looked at this stuff, and it might have been an Open
JJG> Source other than Tiny C.,

    There is also

    "COBOL For GCC, a GNU Project

    "COBOL for GCC is a project to create a COBOL 85 compliant
compiler for GNU/Linux and other operating systems, using the GCC (GNU
Compiler Collection) code generation framework . Also included within
the source code are two sample compiler front ends to GCC (exa and
toy)."

    But it seems there is no active development going on currently. I
just checked the webpage of the developer mailing list, and there was
only one message to be found for 2004, from William M. Klein, by the
way.

    http://www.gnu.org/software/cobol/cobolforgcc.html
or http://cobolforgcc.sourceforge.net/
or http://sourceforge.net/projects/cobolforgcc/

    Tiny COBOLs homepage is http://tiny-cobol.sourceforge.net/

Lüko Willms http://www.willms-edv.de
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