Subj : Re: COBOL for Beginners
To   : POINDEXTER FORTRAN
From : Dumas Walker
Date : Fri Dec 06 2019 18:17:00

> I never saw a COBOL compiler, don't know if it was because of demand or
> hardware requirements - trying to think about the amount of work to get from
> COBOL to X86 assembly boggles the mind.

There was not a free one I know of, but IBM/MicroFocus had one.  I bought a
copy several years ago.  IIRC, it would run on a 386.  Not sure if it would
run on less of a machine than that.

There are free ones now, for linux at least.  I believe what they actually
do is convert the COBOL source to another language and then compile it from
there.


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