Re: Open Source COBOLs

Nothing below...

I could be wrong, and often have been.
But, I believe that group has joined forces with the TC group.
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Warren Simmons

Lueko Willms wrote:
> .    On  28.11.04
>   wrote  jjgavan@shaw.ca (James J. Gavan)
>      on  /COMP/LANG/COBOL
>      in  H5bqd.372236$%k.327708@pd7tw2no
>   about  Re: Differences in data description in programming languages
>
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> JJG> Totally ignoring OO, because that's a 'biggie' to take on - what
> JJG> features do they have actually running from the COBOL 2002 standard
> JJG> ? That doesn't mean they have to be 1,000% COBOL 2002 compliant -
> JJG> nobody else is !  For starters do they have the Intrinsic Functions
> JJG> .What is their target market with, "It's not the final product, but
> JJG> with this release.......". Are they seriously hoping to knock-off
> JJG> AcuCorp, Fujitsu, Liant or Micro Focus.
>
>     The last time I checked, Fujitsu COBOL prices start with 3'250
> USD, which is quite hefty in my view.
>
>     Tiny COBOL is meant to be free to use.
>
> JJG> I've rarely looked at this stuff, and it might have been an Open
> JJG> Source other than Tiny C.,
>
>     There is also
>
>     "COBOL For GCC, a GNU Project
>
>     "COBOL for GCC is a project to create a COBOL 85 compliant
> compiler for GNU/Linux and other operating systems, using the GCC (GNU
> Compiler Collection) code generation framework . Also included within
> the source code are two sample compiler front ends to GCC (exa and
> toy)."
>
>     But it seems there is no active development going on currently. I
> just checked the webpage of the developer mailing list, and there was
> only one message to be found for 2004, from William M. Klein, by the
> way.
>
>     http://www.gnu.org/software/cobol/cobolforgcc.html
> or  http://cobolforgcc.sourceforge.net/
> or  http://sourceforge.net/projects/cobolforgcc/
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>
>     Tiny COBOLs homepage is http://tiny-cobol.sourceforge.net/
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> Lüko Willms                                     http://www.willms-edv.de
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