[Info-vax] VMS Cobol - GnuCOBOL

[Dave Froble]

On 2/22/2023 8:06 AM, Simon Clubley wrote:
> 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.
>

Don't you know, Bob reads your mind ...

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