Re: [open-cobol-list] Daydreaming about another language to emit

[Brian Tiffin]

On 10/9/13, john Culleton <address@hidden> wrote:
> On Fri, 04 Oct 2013 10:15:52 -0400
> Patrick <address@hidden> wrote:
>
>>
>> > Only practical intermediate language would be C++.
>> >
>> > That would allow us to introduce OO in the future.
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> Hi Vince
>>
>> Yes,  I forgot to bring up OO.
>>
>> Practical or not, perhaps we could chat about requirements??
>>
>> Pascal, Ada and D all bring OO as well.
>>
>> My main motivation for even discussing other languages is the
>> difficulty of bringing in other languages into Cobol in a Cobol-like
>> way.
>>
>> Perhaps a separate compiler that translated Tidy Cobol looking code
>> into Cobol + many CALL statements would be a neat project as well.
>>
>> Just a rough fictional example:
>>
>> GTK-START
>>    WIDGETS-START
>>    CREATE window TITLE is "Hello World" SET TOP-LEVEL
>>    WIDGETS-END
>>
>> EXEC-GTK
>>    SHOW window
>> END-GTK
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> This could end up
>>
>>
>>
>> CALL "gtk this and that'
>>
>> CALL "gtk this and that'
>>
>> CALL "gtk this and that' etc...
>>
>>
>> -Patrick
>>
>>
> A long long time ago my Honeywell 110 had two COBOL compilers. One ran
> in 16k and the other in 8k. The smaller one generated code that
> consisted entirely of ""call" statements to precompiled machine language
> functions.
>
> I would like to see a COBOL compiler written entirely in COBOL. Now
> that would be an accomplishment.

I can't find the reference, but I'm pretty sure Micro Focus COBOL is
written in Micro Focus COBOL, and has been for quite a while.

I could be mis-remembering some long forgotten blog entry though.
RM/COBOL maybe?

Cheers,
Brian


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