[Info-vax] VMS Cobol - GnuCOBOL

Arne Vajhøj arne at vajhoej.dk
Tue Feb 21 14:15:59 EST 2023


On 2/20/2023 5:56 PM, Denys Beauchemin wrote:
> Yeah, Gnucobol, in my opinion; is more like something to play around
> as a concept; it’s not a serious mission-critical answer for OpenVMS
> COBOL migration.  The C code it generates is nightmarish.

If a company is spending X M$ or XX M$ migrating from Cobol/VMS
to Cobol/Linux, then paying for a commercial Cobol is not a problem
(you prefer Fujitsu - other may prefer Micro Focus).

But GnuCOBOL is pretty big in the hobbyist space.

Arne





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