[Info-vax] VMS Cobol - GnuCOBOL

[Simon Clubley]

On 2023-02-21, ultr... at gmail.com <ultradwc at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Friday, February 17, 2023 at 1:35:57 PM UTC-5, Simon Clubley wrote:
>> 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. 
>> 
>
> C ????  AT LEAST DIBOL CAN BE DEBUGGED ...

Bob, where did I mention C in the above list ?

Simon.

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