[Info-vax] VMS Cobol - GnuCOBOL

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On Friday, February 17, 2023 at 1:35:57 PM UTC-5, Simon Clubley wrote:
> On 2023-02-17, Arne Vajhøj <ar... 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.
> > Arne 
> > 
> > PS: I don't see what Dibol does for converting files between 
> > VMS Cobol and GNUCobol though. 
> >
> Nothing as far as I am aware. Bob just likes to claim that DIBOL is 
> the answer to everything. It's not. In a previous life, I used to 
> write some applications in it, and while its well suited to certain 
> applications, it is not a general language in the same way as say 
> C++, Ada, Pascal, or Java. 
> 
> It also suffers from not having a free version so you have to pay 
> for the compiler (and unless the payment model has changed over the 
> last decade or so), you also have to pay for runtime licences. 
> 
> Simon. 
> 
> -- 
> Simon Clubley, clubley at remove_me.eisner.decus.org-Earth.UFP 
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C ????  AT LEAST DIBOL CAN BE DEBUGGED ...