RE: gnubol: Cobol for GCC Progress Report

["Ashish Sharma" <A.Sharma@toa.toasia.co.jp>]

Hi William,

> PerCOBOL does do what you are looking
for - it just isn't its
> major purpose.

But it's not FREE. What we are looking
for is a free convertor.

> (I won't get into the "language wars"
about the fact that COBOL
> is still more
> portable than Java - and that there
is no "good reason" to
> convert away from
> it - especially in a performance
sensitive application.)

I don't belive in language wars.
There is a huge wave (hype?) here in
Japan about C-2-Java among mid-size
business. And we provide what the
customers want.

-Ashish

> > > >I have been looking for a Cobol
to Java convertor (not Cobol
> > > compiler) for a
> > > >while.
> > > >
> > > Sounds something like the
PerCOBOL product from Synkronix
> > > <http://www.synkronix.com/> I've
seen mentioned.
> >
> > No, what I am looking for is some
"Tool" which takes Cobol
> source code as
> > input and generates Java source
code as output.
> >
> > -Ashish


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