A Gentle Introduction to COBOL - As the Common Business Oriented Language, COBOL has a long and storied history. To... - https://hackaday.com/2025/04/30/a-gentle-introduction-to-cobol/ #softwaredevelopment #gcc-cobol #featured #interest #gnucobol #cobol

So a great article showed up in my Google Alerts! "Porting COBOL Code And The Trouble With Ditching Domain Specific Languages". Great, balanced if supportive stuff. #cobol #gnucobol #gcc-cobol

https://hackaday.com/2025/04/16/porting-cobol-code-and-the-trouble-with-ditching-domain-specific-languages/

Porting COBOL Code and the Trouble With Ditching Domain Specific Languages - Whenever the topic is raised in popular media about porting a codebase written in ... - https://hackaday.com/2025/04/16/porting-cobol-code-and-the-trouble-with-ditching-domain-specific-languages/ #softwaredevelopment #featured #interest #gnucobol #fortran #cobol

Ok, it was easier to find modern programming practices for bash than for #GnuCOBOL - maybe it is more fun with the paid versions of COBOL.

- lint? compiler warnings
- unit tests? Sort of? Couldn't get 'em to work
- package management? where?
- "awesome cobol" directory? more like awesome 404s

https://github.com/matthewdeanmartin/isopod_cob

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Ce soir, c'est #cobol avec un talk sur la transpiration de #gnucobol au meetup @progmag

#COBOL, that obsolete language that's been supposed to "die in 5 years" for 65 years ? With over 800 billion lines of code (according to a Micro Focus study), it's like the Highlander of programming languages.

But, being a paragon of the closed model, there are #opensource projects to follow, such as the #GnuCOBOL compiler. Here is a presentation of the project at #FOSDEM2024 (@fosdem) by Fabrice LE FESSANT and Simon SOBISCH

› https://ftp.heanet.ie/mirrors/fosdem-video/2024/h2215/fosdem-2024-3249-gnucobol-the-free-industrial-ready-alternative-for-cobol-.av1.webm
› https://gnucobol.sourceforge.io/