Re: gnubol: Anyone actually working on Cobol

[Tim Josling <tej@melbpc.org.au>]

I was thinking about this yesterday, looking at the design for
the runtime eg for search, inspect unstring etc, and I realised
that you will probably need pointers. All the vendors have
pointers but the implementationa are all exactly different. What
would be the preferred model.

My iniial observation was that Fujitsu COBOL has a good
implementation and a free downloadable compiler for win3.1 and
win32 that people can use, so theirs might be a good choice. Or
does everyone have linux?

Tim Josling


Fred Neale wrote:
> 
> Fred Mobach wrote on 08/11/99:-
> 
> >> Much of the compiler has to be in C for various reasons and a lot
> >> of those who would contribute only know COBOL, so it is important
> >> to get a basic cobol thing going so those people can contribute
> >> by writing cobol eg for a lot of the verb support routines.
> 
> >I know you're pointing here to the contributions I (among others) have to do.
> >I'll love it :-).
> 
> Count me in. I'd love to help
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Fred Neale



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