I have no idea about GnuCOBOL - I remember being fond of Cobol though.
WOW I took Cobol in 1983 and 1985. Back then it was required at the UofA and I think Pima College as well. I'm sure there must be high demand for those skills today. The City of Tucson had millions of lines of Cobol in 1988 - they ran most of the city on water cooled mainframes and dumb terminals. And the code was pure spaghetti code.
About a year ago I was at a car show and was admiring this 1962 Corvette. I stuck up a conversation with the owner and he told me he worked with Cobol and his group optimized Cobol. I assumed he was doing ok financially since he owned a 1962 Corvette and lived in Scottsdale.
Congratulations on your new Gig!! On 2015-01-05 18:33, trent shipley wrote:
I wrote to the newbie list for GnuCOBOL for some help getting started. I'm writing to the local list to see if anyone has experience with COBOL, and GnuCOBOL in particular. I got hired November 17, 2014 to a new job where I will be outsourced to a financial company. Right now I and 19 other recruits are in a COBOL on IBM MVS boot camp. We can't get on the training system from home. I took six semester hours of COBOL on VMS in 1998 and 1999, so I help out some of the trainees. You can see how GnuCOBOL would be useful. Community support for GnuCOBOL native on Windows, on a native Linux partition, or on Linux hosted on Windows (well, personally I use OS X) would be much appreciated, even if it was just support for installation, and early compilation and COBOL debugging. --------------------------------------------------- PLUG-discuss mailing list - [email protected] To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: http://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss
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