Hackaday · Porting COBOL Code And The Trouble With Ditching Domain Specific LanguagesWhenever the topic is raised in popular media about porting a codebase written in an ‘antiquated’ programming language like Fortran or COBOL, very few people tend to object to this noti…
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yesterday i found out it's possible to compile gnucobol with djgpp on freedos: https://sourceforge.net/p/gnucobol/discussion/cobol/thread/bf585faa58/#c467
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GnuCOBOL: GnuCOBOL in FreeDOS/MS-DOS ...
Minecraft Server in #cobol
https://github.com/meyfa/CobolCraft
Surprisingly readable and stays in COBOL most of the time, not too much resorting to C.
I think it deserves more stars.
GitHubGitHub - meyfa/CobolCraft: A Minecraft server written in COBOLA Minecraft server written in COBOL. Contribute to meyfa/CobolCraft development by creating an account on GitHub.
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Ok, it was easier to find modern programming practices for bash than for #GnuCOBOL - maybe it is more fun with the paid versions of COBOL.
- lint? compiler warnings
- unit tests? Sort of? Couldn't get 'em to work
- package management? where?
- "awesome cobol" directory? more like awesome 404s
GitHubGitHub - matthewdeanmartin/isopod_cob: Trivial text adventure game to make a basic gnucobol build scriptTrivial text adventure game to make a basic gnucobol build script - matthewdeanmartin/isopod_cob
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@riotnrrd ... We could have a discussion about your opinion of COBOL. Your second point is on target. Developers responsibly write and test COBOL to Java translators and carefully make sure the results are correct (#heirloomcomputing among others). AI is a different matter altogether. GnuCOBOL simply compiles it to C and uses gcc to produce native programs. Our COBOL for GCC (gcobol) will be a GCC - native compiler. Recompilation is often all that is needed.
#GnuCOBOL 3.2 Released After 2+ Years In Development
GnuCOBOL trans-compiles #COBOL code to C and has continued keeping up with COBOL standards. With GnuCOBOL 3.2 there is improved dialect handling and "highly improved" run-times for several statements while also reducing memory use. This GnuCOBOL update also brings fileio improvements, improvements for source-level debugging with GDB and Coredump, and improvements to reproducible builds handling.
https://www.phoronix.com/news/GnuCOBOL-3.2