Re: [open-cobol-list] future Developments, Brain Storming

[Patrick]

Hi Brian

Thanks for all your great feedback.

Since all C is valid C++ code, it shouldn't be so hard to rework the 
build system to compile the presently generated C code as C++. I will 
need to read up on autotools a bit but if you want me crate a modified 
build system I can?

I don't know anything about the function ALL but I will read up on it 
and see if this is something I can tackle.

I really like Ada but the one thing that was driven me from it to open 
Cobol is the compiler. It is about 400K lines of code. It's too much for 
me to handle. I will never understand it and that leaves me pretty much 
stuck with where Adacore wants to take the language. >10 years after 
most people moved to ARM for embedded design, Adacore is now working on 
a port. It's crazy that an embedded language can hardly be used with any 
embedded targets(as in no OS). They are moving to ARM now that their 
customer base is. If it was me, I would have done that 10 years ago so 
that I would have a larger customer base but any-who, you get the point. 
OC has a small compiler and is hackable. I think I should be able to use 
OC in most of the places that I wanted to use Ada and if I was backed 
into a corner I could probably do this autonomously.

I have looked at the Vala sources. They intimated me a bit like GNAT. 
the source code seems to be about 100K lines. I would like to figure out 
what parts I could look at to see how vapigen works internally but it 
could take me some time.

I like FLTK. It uses a small subset of C++. It sounds like even many 
professional "day-coders" use a subset of C++. Do you think we could use 
a very small subset of C++ to implement the 2002 features?

-Patrick