Notices by Marty Heyman (marty@symas.social)

Streaming data support for #COBOL. Adds a processing mode to augment Batch and Transaction style processing:

https://hackernoon.com/announcing-the-cobol-streamhouse?ref=hackernoon.com

So a great article showed up in my Google Alerts! "Porting COBOL Code And The Trouble With Ditching Domain Specific Languages". Great, balanced if supportive stuff. #cobol #gnucobol #gcc-cobol

https://hackaday.com/2025/04/16/porting-cobol-code-and-the-trouble-with-ditching-domain-specific-languages/

@riotnrrd ... We could have a discussion about your opinion of COBOL. Your second point is on target. Developers responsibly write and test COBOL to Java translators and carefully make sure the results are correct (#heirloomcomputing among others). AI is a different matter altogether. GnuCOBOL simply compiles it to C and uses gcc to produce native programs. Our COBOL for GCC (gcobol) will be a GCC - native compiler. Recompilation is often all that is needed.

#cobol #gcobol #gnucobol

@riotnrrd By the way, LLVM being one thing, GCC another, COBOL for GCC is being submitted to GCC for 15 right now. Incomplete but the core language is there.