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  • Re: What Is Unix? (was: H

    From Mortar@VERT/EOTLBBS to MIKE POWELL on Thursday, January 15, 2026 15:34:35
    Re: Re: What Is Unix? (was: H
    By: MIKE POWELL to ANTHK on Wed Jan 14 2026 08:46:00

    As COBOL reads a lot like english, I found it easy to pick up. You do have to remember to define all of your variables in working storage...

    COBOL was my favorite language. I learned it in the mid-'70s using an IBM 370/158; COBOL 74 was the dialect. Yeah, you had to watch that Data Division, but the Procedure Div. could be even more treacherous. One mis-placed special character can generate a multitude of error msgs. In fact we used to hold contests (unofficially, of course) on who could generate the most. I never came close to the record, which I believe was over 200 errors, just because a comma was used instead of a period, I forget how.

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  • From fusion@VERT/CFBBS to Amessyroom on Friday, January 16, 2026 09:42:00
    On 16 Jan 2026, Amessyroom said the following...

    Have you done COBOL on linux ? I learned it in high school along with RPG ver used it. Took a course in college but changed it to pass/fail because 't keep up.

    apparently there's GnuCOBOL .. and from the looks of it IBM continues to release COBOL for Linux (2020+ stuff) so it's still a skillset to have i guess.

    start spamming lengthy examples on github and hope someone messages you offering a COBOL job? lol

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  • From Mortar@VERT/EOTLBBS to Amessyroom on Friday, January 16, 2026 15:03:11
    Re: Re: What Is Unix? (was: H
    By: Amessyroom to Mortar on Fri Jan 16 2026 13:29:11

    Found this intro link on using gnucobol on iinux; so I may give it a try.
    https://neilrieck.net/docs/linux_notes_gnucobol.html

    Looks interesting. Thanks.

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