I couldn't be certain, but for a long time the MicroFocus products were the "goto" compilers for folks moving off IBM Mainframes. I am not sure what their current status, but they are certainly highly featured on their web sites. They have been around so long that perhaps they are no legacy... Dave P.S. now you can write decent BASIC Cobol should be a snip. Three or four days with the manual and you would be enough for you to start Stock Control packages, just what the museum needs.
-----Original Message----- From: vcf-midatlantic [mailto:vcf-midatlantic- bounces@lists.vintagecomputerfederation.org] On Behalf Of Evan Koblentz via vcf-midatlantic Sent: 17 May 2017 22:57 To: vcf-midatlantic <vcf-midatlantic@lists.vintagecomputerfederation.org> Cc: Evan Koblentz <evan@vcfed.org> Subject: [vcf-midatlantic] COBOL
Relax: I don't intend to learn COBOL. :)
Lots of tech reporters are writing stories about why COBOL is dead/obsolete. They're wrong. I am writing a story about COBOL's merits, roadmap, etc. -- already working on setting up some interviews with people in the ISO standards community, IBM, and so on.
Here's a specific question for you guys. The page at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_compilers#COBOL_compilers lists lists nine COBOL compilers. Other than IBM and Gnu, which are the most common ones used in industry? (banks, federal agencies, etc.)
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