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xcode and cobol
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Jul 24, 2007, 03:09 PM
 
does xcode support cobol? if not is there a plugin or extension to install?
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Jul 24, 2007, 05:58 PM
 
No, and there's no extension that I know of. There are other solutions though, but I have no idea which work best.
     
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Jul 24, 2007, 07:27 PM
 
lol. Did you actually say COBOL?

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Ummm... I don't think there's a gcc front end for COBOL. You may want to try and find a way to ssh to a mainframe :-P
     
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Jul 24, 2007, 07:35 PM
 
haha yep, cobol it is. i was hoping i could practice it on a mac-simplified interface instead of using the mainframe.
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Jul 24, 2007, 08:01 PM
 
I believe Eclipse has a COBOL plugin. My experience with the language is zip, though, so don't ask me how well it works.
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Jul 24, 2007, 08:21 PM
 
If I may ask, why do you have to learn COBOL? I can understand that FORTRAN is a necessary evil in scientific communities, but COBOL?
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Jul 25, 2007, 11:25 AM
 
You are probably not going to be able to get it to work with XCode (at the moment, mostly, it is only a front-end for GCC), but a quick google turned up this:

OpenCOBOL - an open-source COBOL compiler
     
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Jul 26, 2007, 08:10 PM
 
i have to use cobol at work, so the more i know, the better. thanks for the open-source cobol compiler, ill play around with it.
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