On Fri, May 24, 2019 at 12:15 PM ghe <g...@slsware.net> wrote: > On 5/24/19 9:08 AM, Paul Sutton wrote: > > > As I am trying to promote contributing to Debian, what programming > > languages are mostly used? > > C, perl, java, ruby, python, bash, that I know of. And probably several > others. I don't recall seeing any COBOL, though :-) >
COBOL? How about https://packages.debian.org/stretch/open-cobol ? > OpenCOBOL implements substantial part of the COBOL 85 and > COBOL 2002 standards, as well as many extensions of the existent > compilers. OpenCOBOL translates COBOL into C and compiles > the translated code using GCC. I may even Install this on my Stretch System, to bring back memories of my IBM Mainframe Days, where I programmed, often heavily in COBOL, from 1974 to 1986. <snip> -- > Glenn English > > Kenneth Parker
