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COBOL front-end added to GCC

https://gcc.gnu.org/gcc-15/changes.html#cobol

26•temeya•9mo ago

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gthompson512•9mo ago

This has been planned for a while, is this news?

ch_123•9mo ago

You are probably thinking of the unrelated GnuCOBOL project.

https://gnucobol.sourceforge.io/

waynecochran•9mo ago

And now COBOL stores dates with more that two digits! I'll be sure to port my mainframe app right away!

jmclnx•9mo ago

Very nice, too bad this was not done around 30 years ago. People were begging for a GNU COBOL for Linux back then. But due to a stigma about COBOL, no one wanted to create one.

If one existed back then, the world would probably be a much different place.

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288•i5heu•20h ago•245 comments

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