On Tue, Oct 23, 2007 at 08:34:15PM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: > On 10/23/07 20:08, David Fox wrote: > > On 10/23/07, Chris Parker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> Hello all, > >> > >> Does anyone know of a good cobol compiler and gui development > >> enviroment? I have seen open-cobol as a compiler, but was wondering if > >> anyone has any other recommendations? > > > > > > I've not yet heard of an open cobol, seems that it might be > > interesting. Last I checked, there was > > a tiny cobol compiler that I got somewhere on the net but don't have > > it anymore and can't remember where I got it. > > Correct. COBOL* is so complicated a language, and so anti-geeky, > that no one has really had an itch to create a full COBOL > environment. You'll have to pony up the coin for a commercial compiler. > > * And it's soulmate PL/I.
I'll bite: why do you need COBOL? You've go C, Fortran, and Ada in gcc, plus Python (interpreted). IIUC, the philosophy behind COBOL is that non-programmers can at least read it to understand what is happening. You can achieve that with Python if you're careful. Also, I believe its one of the minor goals of Ada. Of course, if you _need_ a COBOL compiler, you _need_ COBOL. It seems that OpenCOBOL traslates COBOL to C and then compiles that with gcc. Doug. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
