Date: Tue, 27 Jul 1999 02:28:15 -0400 (EDT) From: Marc Ramirez <mrami@gbtb.com> To: Terry Lambert <tlambert@primenet.com> Cc: chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Miscellany of chat-type questions... Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.990727022410.32315D-100000@www.gbtb.com> In-Reply-To: <199907270013.RAA23423@usr01.primenet.com>
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On Tue, 27 Jul 1999, Terry Lambert wrote: > > (2) Would anyone want to use COBOL on FreeBSD? Why? :) > > I actually considered writing a COBOL compiler, and went so > far as to create a grammar. > > I think that it might be an OK thing for TenDRA (so it doesn't > get GPL'ed), but for use with GNU tools, I'm afraid that it > would have to be a COBOL-TO-C translator, if I ever decided > that it was worthwhile finishing the thing for use on FreeBSD. Yeah; it seems to me that any system worth its salt nowadays has to have at least a "compile to Java" type function... no sense going GNU that I can see... > Oh, yeah, it's not ANSI COBOL-85 (I hate what Harris did to the > language that I thought could not get more bloated...). :) Then they went and put OO on it. Marc. > Terry Lambert > terry@lambert.org > --- > Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present > or previous employers. > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message > -- Marc Ramirez - Owner Great Big Throbbing Brains mrami@gbtb.com http://www.gbtb.com Our brains throb, so yours won't have to! To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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