Re: Re: gnubol: Anyone actually working on Cobol

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The COBOL to C, would give us a compiler, since you would end up with binaries produced by GCC. We would have, in effect, a COBOL compiler with a software which first parsed to C, and then used GCC to produce the binaries. It gets the COBOL to binary machine language, therefore it does the job. There are benefits to doing it this way, such as portability. This would allow the COBOL compiler to be very easily used on a wide variety of computer hardware very easily, for the compiler to also be moved to new archectures easily as well. In fact, many of the other GNU compilers for various langauges are designed in this matter.



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