Dan Sugalski wrote:
> There's a GPL COBOL compiler, TinyCOBOL (1). > > If anyone wants to take a shot at giving it a > PIR back end... (And yes, this would actually be > very useful. Imagine using Parrot as a way to migrate > legacy COBOL apps to, well, almost anything else. > This would be a Good Thing for an awful lot of folks)
Actually there are several GPL COBOL compilers.
OpenCOBOL (2) is a compiler which generates C code. It's grammar is almost fully COBOL 85 and partially COBOL 200x compliant.
There is also 'GCC COBOL' (3), which uses the GCC back end to create a binary.
1) TinyCOBOL http://tiny-cobol.sf.net/
2) OpenCOBOL http://open-cobol.sf.net/
3) GCC COBOL http://open-cobol.sf.net/gcc.html
