Re: Celebrating the creator of Cobol

Hello Ubiquitous!

25 Apr 08 16:21, Ubiquitous wrote to All:

U> andrewmcdonagh@xxxxxxxxx wrote:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/6168489.stm

U> Wow, Grace worked on COBOL too?

Sort of, when I came into programming in 1963 using machine code, assembler
and Cobol I seem to recall her name was in the very skimpy Cobol manual (by
skimpy I mean around 40-50 A4 pages long) and that included the syntax and the
JCL to run the compiler on a ICL 1501. The manual for a IBM 1401 was not much
better.

I seem to recall she was also directly involved in the test suite that still
exists today to be used to test out Cobol compilers for correct operation
using specific syntax and I still use it today when testing Open Cobol and
Tiny Cobol. Coming to think about it, Microfocus Cobol as well.

In that suite was a flow chart generator as well as a cross reference tool.

Last year I started using it again only to find that it was far to far out of
date for modern compilers, at least Open Cobol so I did a total rewrite of it.
I must get round and place it onto the sourceforge web site as I have set up
an area for it.

So little time, so much to do.

Vince


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