A Gentle Introduction to COBOL https://hackaday.com/2025/04/30/a-gentle-introduction-to-cobol/ #SoftwareDevelopment #gcc-cobol #Featured #Interest #gnucobol #cobol

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 https://hackaday.com/2025/04/16/porting-cobol-code-and-the-trouble-with-ditching-domain-specific-languages/ #SoftwareDevelopment #Featured #Interest #gnucobol #FORTRAN #cobol

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

@steve #gnucobol is the way to go.

yesterday i found out it's possible to compile gnucobol with djgpp on freedos: https://sourceforge.net/p/gnucobol/discussion/cobol/thread/bf585faa58/#c467

Minecraft Server in #cobol

https://github.com/meyfa/CobolCraft

Surprisingly readable and stays in COBOL most of the time, not too much resorting to C.

#gnucobol

I think it deserves more stars.

FOSDEM 2024 - GnuCOBOL, the Free Industrial-ready Alternative for COBOL! (1)

https://tilvids.com/videos/watch/c5480466-d043-493c-950c-36db1d21f710

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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