Subj : Re: COBOL for Beginners
To   : smartyhall
From : Dr. What
Date : Fri Dec 06 2019 18:14:00

-=> smartyhall wrote to All <=-

 sm> I know a lot of people would take this as a farcical question, but I
 sm> really am this crazy. :-P

 sm> I'm looking for a good place to start learning COBOL.

Ya, you're crazy.  8)

COBOL is on the out and pretty much only on Mainframes (even then, there's not
much active development - primarily maintenance).

But if you really want to spend some time with it, there's GnuCOBOL, NetCOBOL
for .Net, and probably more.

I built an RC2014 (a Z80 based retrocomputer running CP/M 2.2) and I was able
to locate a COBOL compiler on one of the software archives.

So a quick Google search should let you find what you need.

 
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