[Info-vax] VMS Cobol - GnuCOBOL

[Arne Vajhøj]

On 2/21/2023 5:47 PM, Denys Beauchemin wrote:
> On Tuesday, February 21, 2023 at 1:16:03 PM UTC-6, Arne Vajhøj wrote:
>> 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.
> 
> Gnucobol may be big in the hobbyist space, but it's not a viable solution for mission-critical production.

I believe you.

But there are other things than mission-critical production.

You guys probably focus on mission-critical production because that is
where someone is willing to pay. And you have tools for data conversion.

The potential readers of my little write-up is a different audience.

Arne