[Info-vax] [OT] Programming languages on Unix, was: Re: [OT] Unix terminal drivers

[Simon Clubley]

On 2012-05-21, Jan-Erik Soderholm <jan-erik.soderholm at telia.com> wrote:
> Bernard Giroud wrote 2012-05-21 17:21:
>> Le 21/05/2012 17:05, Dirk Munk a écrit :
>>> Simon Clubley wrote:
>>>> On 2012-05-21, Paul Sture<paul at sture.ch> wrote:
>>>>> On Sun, 20 May 2012 23:51:17 +0000, Simon Clubley wrote:
>>>>>> Other languages I have used or have considered using on Unix over the
>>>>>> years include Fortran, Java, COBOL, Pascal, Modula-2 and C++.
>>>>>
>>>>> I was looking for a Unix COBOL a few years ago, but came up with a
>>>>> blank,
>>>>> though I will admit I was looking at free/cheap solutions.
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>> The two I know about are:
>>>>
>>>> OpenCOBOL at http://www.opencobol.org/
>>>
>>> OpenCobol 1.0 dates from 2008, OpenCobol 1.1 beta dates from 2007. No
>>> updates in 4 years? Seems a rather dead project to me.
>>
>> No. It is not ! But Roger While is working alone on a major update. In the
>> meantime, Brian Tiffin has just uploaded on Sourceforge the current
>> version, wrongly named OpenCobol 1.1 prerelease (or Beta) IMHO. It is a
>> mature project although there is still room for improvement.
>
> Who is the target for this kind of tool?
> A major company looking at porting their bet-their-business
> COBOL applications from OpenVMS to Linux ?
>

Paul was looking for free/low cost COBOL for Unix which is what I pointed
him to. If you want support and someone to call when things go wrong, I
am sure there are various vendors who will gladly take your money in
return for letting you run their version of COBOL on various versions
of Unix.

(As for the other language pointers, I included those in case people
were interested in the other languages I mentioned.)

Simon.

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