gnubol: Re: Cobol for GCC Progress Report

[David Essex <dessex@arvotek.net>]

Tim,

At 04:52 PM 25/04/00, Tim Josling wrote:
>David Essex wrote:
>> 
>> Which version of GCC are you using ?
>
>Currently I am tracking the weekly snapshots. About once a month
>the build fails so I get to learn some more about GCC by
>debugging it :-)

Interesting approach.

>On the question of should the runtime be in C or COBOL, I'll take
>good code in either language. Some people feel it is a mistake to
>use any language other than C because the pool of maintainers is
>smaller, however in this case using COBOL may make the pool of
>potential maintainers larger, I hope.

My vote would be for C, not because of any language preference, but because
I think C is better choice for the task at hand.

BTW, were you planning to use a cvs repository ? 


David


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