Subj : Re: Cobol/gnucobol To : All From : nelgin Date : Thu May 29 2025 23:03:02 On Thu, 29 May 2025 10:46:25 -0700 "Darknetgirl" (VERT/RDBBS) wrote: > Re: Cobol/gnucobol > By: Dumas Walker to DARKNETGIRL on Wed May 28 2025 09:10 am > > > I have yet to try programming anything in gnucobol. > > First of all, I am overwhelmed by the response. > I am suprised the groups are still active, I am experimenting > back with BBS after the bloated world of social media and Internet > (not the protocol, of course). So I need to get used again to > the editors & co ... It's interesting that I get a lot of callers that are using bulletin boards to escape social media. I think they're poised to make a huge come back. > I understood that COBOL is more like German, i.e. in theory > that's the common language, but in practice there are so many > dialects there. I just started playing with gnucobol as a starting > point, perhaps I might embrace Mainframe (as MVS3.8j) or iSeries (ex > AS/400) as I have an account on pub400.com You could say that about a lot of languages. A lot of 8 bit computers have their own basic like Commoredore, BBC Basic, ZX Spectrum has its own basic plus whatever was available for the PC like GW Basic etc. > That said, I believe gnucobol is pretty limited when it comes to > extensions, and that is also on screens. For example, is > > I also have to say that I'm not a developer. I'm a glorified sysadmin > that mess with code sometimes. I just wanted something that has a > decent "easy" language instead of get headaches with stuff like Rust. You might want to try and track down a more industry standard version such as Microfocus COBOL. I remember that was running on our SCO Unix systems and I was able to use the Linux compatibility back then to get it work on Slackware. -- End Of The Line BBS - Plano, TX telnet endofthelinebbs.com 23 .