> On Sep 29, 2026, at 7:46 PM, Paul Koning via cctalk <[email protected]>
> wrote:
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>> On Sep 29, 2026, at 4:28 PM, Peter Ekstrom <[email protected]> wrote:
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>> Ah yes, RPG.... I used to write and maintain programs on an AS/400 in
>> RPG-III and /400 back in my youth. Good memories.
>>
>> I know GCC has COBOL and also FORTRAN and ADA but I don't know of an RPG
>> compiler.
>
> Me neither. The closest I have come to RPG is my youngest sister, who was a
> commercial contract programmer around Y2K and made quite a good living
> updating COBOL and RPG programs. To her I owe this lovely quote: "COBOL --
> the programming language that gives you writer's cramp".
>
> GCC has accumulated quite a bunch of languages at this point. C/C++ of
> course, and Objective C/C++, and Fortran. Also Ada, COBOL, Modula-2, D,
> Algol-68, and (on a fork) VHDL. I think that's it though I may have missed
> one or two.
Yes, I missed two. Quoth the gcc.gnu.org <http://gcc.gnu.org/> homepage:
"The GNU Compiler Collection includes front ends for C, C++, Objective-C,
Objective-C++, Fortran, Ada, Go, D, Modula-2, COBOL, Rust, and Algol 68..."
GHDL is separate: https://github.com/ghdl/ghdl
paul
