gnubol: Re: Cobol for GCC Progress Report

[David Essex <dessex@arvotek.net>]

At 06:22 PM 24/04/00, William M. Klein wrote:

>> >My plan then is to get a subset of COBOL going which would allow
>> >COBOL programmers to contribute to the project.
>>
>> And C programmers to contribute to the project Run Time System.
>
>And why shouldn't the run-time be in COBOL as well? Or are you saying that it
>will be in a combination of the two.

Perhaps Tim would be the person to answer that question. 

However, if the compiler is written in C, why would you want to write the
RTS in COBOL ? 

AFAIK other GCC RTS, such as GNU Pascal, are witten in C. 


David


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