Subj : Cobol/gnucobol
To : Dumas Walker
From : Darknetgirl
Date : Thu May 29 2025 10:46 am
Re: Cobol/gnucobol
By: Dumas Walker to DARKNETGIRL on Wed May 28 2025 09:10 am
> I have yet to try programming anything in gnucobol.
First of all, I am overwhelmed by the response.
I am suprised the groups are still active, I am experimenting
back with BBS after the bloated world of social media and Internet
(not the protocol, of course). So I need to get used again to
the editors & co ...
I understood that COBOL is more like German, i.e. in theory
that's the common language, but in practice there are so many dialects there.
I just started playing with gnucobol as a starting point, perhaps
I might embrace Mainframe (as MVS3.8j) or iSeries (ex AS/400) as
I have an account on pub400.com
That said, I believe gnucobol is pretty limited when it comes to
extensions, and that is also on screens. For example, is
I also have to say that I'm not a developer. I'm a glorified sysadmin
that mess with code sometimes. I just wanted something that has a decent
"easy" language instead of get headaches with stuff like Rust.
>
> So I might be able to answer some general coding questions, but probably
> not many about coding interactive screens, and my "best practices" might
> include some long-standing bad habits. ;)
Bed habits are the norm. :)
I would like to learn and I guess there's no better learning that read
some code. (any suggestion of some publicly available code?)
For example, maybe a stupid question, is it normal that a CRUD application
has everything in a single COB file? And is it normal that you
need to have a sort of "command" with a letter or a number to process
the CRUD (add, edit, update, delete)? Or I'm just doing something wrong?
Well, I believe it's all for now.
But I'll "flood" you with questions from time to time.
