GnuCOBOL
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GnuCOBOL (formerly known as OpenCOBOL, and briefly as GNU Cobol) is a free implementation of the COBOL programming language that is part of the GNU project. GnuCOBOL translates the COBOL code into C and then compiles it using the native C compiler.
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- Official website
- gnu.org/s/gnucobol
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- Stack Exchange tag
- stackoverflow.com/tags/opencobol
- source code repository URL
- sf.net/p/gnucobol/code
- software version identifier
- 2.2
- issue tracker URL
- sourceforge.net/p/gnucobol/bugs
- user manual URL
- gnucobol.sourceforge.io/guides.html
- mailing list archive URL
- lists.gnu.org/archive/html/gnucobol-users
- inception
- 2002-00-00
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GnuCOBOL (formerly known as OpenCOBOL, and briefly as GNU Cobol) is a free implementation of the COBOL programming language that is part of the GNU project. GnuCOBOL translates the COBOL code into C and then compiles it using the native C compiler.
==History== While collaborating with Rildo Pragana on TinyCOBOL, Keisuke Nishida initiated the development of a COBOL compiler designed for integration with GCC, which led to the creation of the OpenCOBOL project. Nishida served as the lead developer until 2005, up to version 0.31. Roger While succeeded him as the lead developer and released OpenCOBOL 1.0 on 27 December 2007. Development on the OpenCOBOL 1.1 pre-release continued until February 2009. In May 2012, active development transitioned to SourceForge, and the February 2009 pre-release was officially marked as a release. In late September 2013, OpenCOBOL was accepted as a GNU Project, renamed to GNU Cobol, and then finally to GnuCOBOL in September 2014. Ron Norman contributed a Report Writer module as a branch of GnuCobol 2.0, and Sergey Kashyrin developed a version that uses C++ intermediates instead of C.