I have no idea about GnuCOBOL - I remember being fond of Cobol though.
WOW I took Cobol in 1983 and 1985. Back then it was required at the
UofA and I think Pima College as well. I'm sure there must be high
demand for those skills today. The City of Tucson had millions of lines
of Cobol in 1988 - they ran most of the city on water cooled mainframes
and dumb terminals. And the code was pure spaghetti code.
About a year ago I was at a car show and was admiring this 1962
Corvette. I stuck up a conversation with the owner and he told me he
worked with Cobol and his group optimized Cobol. I assumed he was doing
ok financially since he owned a 1962 Corvette and lived in Scottsdale.
Congratulations on your new Gig!!
On 2015-01-05 18:33, trent shipley wrote:
> I wrote to the newbie list for GnuCOBOL for some help getting started.
> I'm writing to the local list to see if anyone has experience with
> COBOL, and GnuCOBOL in particular.
>
> I got hired November 17, 2014 to a new job where I will be outsourced
> to a financial company. Right now I and 19 other recruits are in a
> COBOL on IBM MVS boot camp. We can't get on the training system from
> home. I took six semester hours of COBOL on VMS in 1998 and 1999, so I
> help out some of the trainees. You can see how GnuCOBOL would be
> useful.
>
> Community support for GnuCOBOL native on Windows, on a native Linux
> partition, or on Linux hosted on Windows (well, personally I use OS X)
> would be much appreciated, even if it was just support for
> installation, and early compilation and COBOL debugging.
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