Subj : Re: Cobol/gnucobol
To : All
From : nelgin
Date : Thu May 29 2025 11:03 pm
On Thu, 29 May 2025 10:46:25 -0700
"Darknetgirl" (VERT/RDBBS) <VERT/
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wrote:
> 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 ...
It's interesting that I get a lot of callers that are using bulletin
boards to escape social media. I think they're poised to make a huge
come back.
> 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
You could say that about a lot of languages. A lot of 8 bit computers
have their own basic like Commoredore, BBC Basic, ZX Spectrum has its
own basic plus whatever was available for the PC like GW Basic etc.
> 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.
You might want to try and track down a more industry standard version
such as Microfocus COBOL. I remember that was running on our SCO Unix
systems and I was able to use the Linux compatibility back then to get
it work on Slackware.
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