>>>>> "DE" == David Essex <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
DE> 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) DE> Actually there are several GPL COBOL compilers. DE> OpenCOBOL (2) is a compiler which generates C code. It's grammar is DE> almost fully COBOL 85 and partially COBOL 200x compliant. DE> There is also 'GCC COBOL' (3), which uses the GCC back end to create a DE> binary. what about the runtime libraries for those cobols? i worked on PL/I libraries and they have many similar features to cobol (as pl/i was a genetic monster of cobol/algol/fortran). stuff such as isam record i/o, picture variables, decimal math, etc are needed for a full cobol. do those compiler provide that or are there libs provided for it? some of the fancier compilers of that generation actually generated inline code instead of many calls to runtime libs. uri -- Uri Guttman ------ [EMAIL PROTECTED] -------- http://www.stemsystems.com --Perl Consulting, Stem Development, Systems Architecture, Design and Coding- Search or Offer Perl Jobs ---------------------------- http://jobs.perl.org
