Re: advice on books to learn cobol


some wrote:

Do they expect you to pay the two grand or so cost out-of-pocket, or do
they expect you to steal a copy for them?

I am unclear by your message. As I am new to this field I don't know
much about cost of compiler or the machine but I thought there might be
some free compilers which could be used with a Windows machine. Can
anybody recommend some good ones? A web search reveals many and I am
confused which should I choose?

I thought if I work on a Windows machine with some COBOL compiler the
language skills could be transferrable while working on a mainframe.

Am I understanding something incorrectly?

Can you please clarify?

There are OpenCobol and tinyCobol which are Open Source and not
complete.

Fujitsu have a free student edition of their version 3. This is fairly
old but fairly good.

There is a cheap student edition of MicroFocus.

These don't do SQL.

Productiion quality compilers can be a couple of thousand.

.

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