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Apur-ee.286 net.unix-wizards utcsrgv!utzoo!decvax!pur-ee!davy Sun Mar 28 19:56:33 1982 COBOL Compiler Responses

A while back I asked for information on Cobol compilers for UNIX. Here are the answers I got:

There is a cobol for several unix systems from Ryan-McFarland, I don't know much about them, but it is available on the Onyx and BBN C machine for sure, and maybe others.

Yes, there is one available, and I think it is advertized through Whitesmith's, but I will check it out ASAP.

I also received one account of someone's experience with the Ryan-McFarland compiler:

My wife has used the Ryan-McFarland COBOL compiler on the ONYX in a beginning COBOL class, and we found no significant departures from the COBOL being taught in the class other than the lack of a few features.

I barely know COBOL, but its manual describes its compliance to the ANSI COBOL standard as "Level 1" plus a few "Level 2" features.

In other words, it looks like the compiler is quite sound and approximately complete.

Thanks to ittvax!cox, pur-ee!sb, and sii!wje

--Dave Curry pur-ee!davy

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