From owner-freebsd-chat Mon Jul 26 23:30: 5 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from gbtb.com (modem6.tekrab.net [208.30.20.206]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C4F4A14F83 for ; Mon, 26 Jul 1999 23:29:27 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mrami@gbtb.com) Received: from localhost (mrami@localhost) by gbtb.com (8.9.2/8.9.2) with SMTP id CAA33935; Tue, 27 Jul 1999 02:28:18 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from mrami@gbtb.com) Date: Tue, 27 Jul 1999 02:28:15 -0400 (EDT) From: Marc Ramirez To: Terry Lambert Cc: chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Miscellany of chat-type questions... In-Reply-To: <199907270013.RAA23423@usr01.primenet.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org 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