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Re:COBOL has been "dead" for so long, my grandpa wrote about it by pantalaimon on Wednesday October 02, 2024 @07:54AM (#41719582)
What about

https://gnucobol.sourceforge.io/

https://cobolworx.com/pages/cobforgcc.html

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Re:COBOL has been "dead" for so long, my grandpa wrote about it by lefessan on Wednesday October 02, 2024 @08:55AM (#41720078)
We are among the major contributors to GnuCOBOL, we use https://github.com/OCamlPro/gnucobol to review our contributions before pushing them on the SVN of Sourceforge.

Cobolworx is indeed working on a gcc frontend for COBOL. It's an impressive work (that was presented at FOSDEM this year), but less mature than GnuCOBOL, and tied to gcc, whereas GnuCOBOL can work with any C compiler (llvm, msvc, etc.) by translating COBOL to C.

Though we desig SuperBOL to work with GnuCOBOL, it could also be used with GCOBOL when it will be officially stable.

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