What of GNU COBOL? Is free.
Graham Hobbs
On 22/01/2014 4:48 PM, Frank Swarbrick wrote:
I imagine one could use Micro Focus COBOL and its JVM support. I suppose
mainframe file I/O might be a problem, though.
There's also this: http://www.veryant.com/products/iscobol/cobol-compiler.php.
There was also one called PERCobol from "LegacyJ", but I can't find their
website, so it may have gone the way of the dodo.
I've not tried any of them.
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From: Tony Harminc <[email protected]>
To: [email protected]
Sent: Wednesday, January 22, 2014 1:14 PM
Subject: Re: Resistance to Java.
On 22 January 2014 08:36, John McKown <[email protected]> wrote:
Now wouldn't that be a kick? An Enterprise COBOL compatible compiler which
produced Java byte code. That
would likely sell a lot of zAAPs.
Don't think it hasn't been seriously considered by more than one
party... But as with any number of other such approaches, it would be
limited by its own success. If it managed to displace any significant
amount of IBM revenue by shifting "legacy" workloads to cheaper
processors, IBM would put a stop to it, either technically or by new
Ts & Cs of some sort.
Tony H.
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