There are ANSI standards for COBOL. I assume since DOD was a heavyweight in its development that the standards should be in public domain.
Any recent standard should do. COBOL programmer's don't tend to use advanced features. (I never did get to thank you for responding so quickly. I figured everyone would say COBOL ... get out of here!) On Wednesday, May 7, 2014 2:04:54 PM UTC-5, Jeffrey Kegler wrote: > > I was about to advise an incremental approach, so you're ahead of me. > You'll find that Marpa lends itself very nicely to an incremental approach. > > Is the COBOL standard freely available? And which one are you targeting? > > -- jeffrey > > On 05/07/2014 12:01 PM, clueless newbie wrote: > > With COBOL being as "verbose" as it is, just being able to parse the > classic "Hello, World" program would be a great start. Obviously the first > thing one does is kill the meaningless chaff (the sequence name area and > the program name area) then concatenate the lines that are continuation > with their predecessor. > > COBOL BNF <http://tomcopeland.blogs.com/cobol.html> Another COBOL > BNF<http://www.cs.vu.nl/%7Ex/grammars/vs-cobol-ii/index.html> > > On Wednesday, May 7, 2014 1:39:17 PM UTC-5, Jeffrey Kegler wrote: >> >> By the way, if you prefer IRC, there's an IRC channel -- >> irc.freenode.net: #marpa >> >> You've gotten me curious enough to go to the COBOL Wikipedia pages. And >> others in the Marpa community have done transpilers -- we have a ECMAScript >> transpiler and a C compiler frontend, so there is a fair amount of relevant >> experience out there. Though I suspect the COBOL expertise is a bit thin. >> :-) >> >> -- jeffrey >> >> On 05/07/2014 11:33 AM, clueless newbie wrote: >> >> Being that no one in authority at Company A is going to say ... "Let's >> use the Marpa approach", I'm going to have to attack this on my own time. >> And since I'm certainly not capable of accomplishing it on my own it would >> very much have to be open sourced. >> >> >> -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "marpa parser" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected] <javascript:>. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "marpa parser" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
