> Re: Re: COBOL for Beginners
> By: Dumas Walker to POINDEXTER FORTRAN on Fri Dec 06 2019 06:17 pm
> > > I never saw a COBOL compiler, don't know if it was because of demand or
> > > hardware requirements - trying to think about the amount of work to get
> > > from COBOL to X86 assembly boggles the mind.
> > There was not a free one I know of, but IBM/MicroFocus had one. I bought
> > a copy several years ago. IIRC, it would run on a 386. Not sure if it
> > would run on less of a machine than that.
> > There are free ones now, for linux at least. I believe what they
> > actually do is convert the COBOL source to another language and then
> > compile it from there.
> Transpilers often seem like the Great White Whale of computer science. It's
> so tempting to go down the path of...
> If I just write a transpiler that turns this into an intermediate language
> that is more simple and elegant, I can easily write a compiler that handles
> that efficiently. Then, I can just advance that compiler and apply it to
> anything else I encounter in the future, just by writing a simple
> transpiler. I mean
I suppose you could always try Euphoria :-P
http://www.rapideuphoria.com/
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