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Re: [GNU-COBOL] New to list

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Subject: Re: [GNU-COBOL] New to list
From: Tim Josling <tej@melbpc.org.au>
Date: Thu, 28 Oct 1999 06:48:41 +1000
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There is a COBOL spec which you have to buy. It is about 1,000
pages long.

Tim Josling


David L. Nicol wrote:
> 
> 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.

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References:
- RE: [GNU-COBOL] New to list
  - From: tony.t.harmon@kcsr.com
- RE: [GNU-COBOL] New to list
  - From: "Alejandro Nestor Vargas" <xnet@lanet.com.ar>
- Re: [GNU-COBOL] New to list
  - From: Sébastien Ducléroir <sducleroir@e-laser.fr>
- Re: [GNU-COBOL] New to list
  - From: "David L. Nicol" <david@kasey.umkc.edu>

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