Re: [GNU-COBOL] New to list

["David L. Nicol" <david@kasey.umkc.edu>]

Is there a checklist of COBOL features?  COBOL doesn't have that many
native data types, does it?  I have this idea that writing a COBOL to
Perl
translator would be a straightforward ten hours of iterating over pages
of the spec and implementing them one by one.



Sébastien Ducléroir wrote:
> 
> Alejandro Nestor Vargas wrote :
> >
> > >  And,
> > > finally, is there still enough interest in this project to get it done?
> >
> > Many people is saying "cobol is dead" from many years. But it still alive
> > and still being used. I think there must be interest in a gnu implementation
> > of cobol, because gnu software is growing up everyday. A gnu cobol
> > compatible with commercial implementation of cobol may let many software to
> > be migrated to linux, bsd or other platforms.

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               David Nicol 816.235.1187 nicold@umkc.edu
                                        Enough already.

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