Very nice, too bad this was not done around 30 years ago. People were begging for a GNU COBOL for Linux back then. But due to a stigma about COBOL, no one wanted to create one.
If one existed back then, the world would probably be a much different place.
Very nice, too bad this was not done around 30 years ago. People were begging for a GNU COBOL for Linux back then. But due to a stigma about COBOL, no one wanted to create one.
If one existed back then, the world would probably be a much different place.
This has been planned for a while, is this news?
You are probably thinking of the unrelated GnuCOBOL project.
https://gnucobol.sourceforge.io/
And now COBOL stores dates with more that two digits! I'll be sure to port my mainframe app right away!