In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ciccio <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Does anybody know of a package that performas a convertion > from cobol to C? (Something like p2c, f2c, etc)
I have heard of commercial packages that claim to be able to translate Cobol to C, but I have never heard of a freely available one. Translating Cobol to C is simply a very hard thing to do. C doesn't support many of the things that are built into Cobol, such as packed decimal arithmetic, accessing databases, etc. Yes, you can get packages that let C do the similar things, but it still isn't an easy translation. This is especially true if you want to use the resulting C code for more than just an intermediate step of "compiling the Cobol" program. I have heard of simplistic freely available Cobol interpreters for Unix, but I don't think they are good enough to be used in a serious way. -wayne -- Wayne Schlitt can not assert the truth of all statements in this article and still be consistent. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
