[Info-vax] VMS Cobol - GnuCOBOL

[Dave Froble]

On 2/17/2023 1:35 PM, Simon Clubley wrote:
> On 2023-02-17, Arne Vajhøj <arne at vajhoej.dk> wrote:
>> On 2/17/2023 10:53 AM, bill wrote:
>>> On 2/17/2023 10:33 AM, ultr... at gmail.com wrote:
>>>> On Sunday, February 12, 2023 at 2:34:06 PM UTC-5, Arne Vajhøj wrote:
>>>>> VMS Tech Demo 6 - converting files between VMS Cobol and GnuCOBOL:
>>>>> https://www.vajhoej.dk/arne/articles/vmstd6.html
>>>>
>>>> Synergy DIBOL is the naswer
>>>
>>> Why?
>>>
>>> While I think DIBOL is a pretty cool language, too, it suffers from
>>> the same stigma as BLISS.  Not generally available.  COBOL is.
>>
>> Bliss is let us call it an "ex-DEC whatever" language.
>>
>> But I believe Dibol is available on VMS, Windows, Linux, AIX,
>> HP-UX and everything that supports .NET (Windows, Linux, macOS).
>> That is not everything with Cobol but it is a bit more than Bliss.
>>
>
> The main problem is that it's a language that's controlled by one
> company and which you can only buy from them.

Sorry, but I do not see this as a problem.


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