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best free pc cobol to work with
Posted:
Tue Jul 07, 2009 4:25 pm
by mahesh77
hey group ,
can anyone tell which is the best PC COBOL to work with, and can any one provide the link where i can download it, some one recomended MF COBOL , but i searched web, i cudnt get anywhere, and moreover its asking to have visual studio latest version and .net frmae network
Re: best free pc cobol to work with
Posted:
Wed Jul 08, 2009 12:13 am
by dick scherrer
Hello,
Your post is quite confusing. . . If you "couldn't get anywhere", what (product?) is asking for visual studio and .net framework be installed?
MF Cobol is probably MicroFocus cobol and should be quite easy to find.
I don't know if MicroFocus has a free cobol compiler.
Suggest you start here:
http://www.microfocus.com
Re: best free pc cobol to work with
Posted:
Wed Jul 08, 2009 12:16 pm
by mahesh77
microfocus cobol is very complicated to download and install, does any one know other free cobol compilers which are easy to download , install and use
Re: best free pc cobol to work with
Posted:
Wed Jul 08, 2009 11:59 pm
by dick scherrer
Hello,
What was the complication? Does MicroFocus have a free cobol compiler? Or was that the complication ($)?
You haven't mentioned why Visual Studio and/or the .NET framework are needed (as requested earlier). . .
If you look on the web for "open source" you may find something - not my area
Re: best free pc cobol to work with
Posted:
Thu Jul 09, 2009 9:41 pm
by BChat
mahesh77 wrote:microfocus cobol is very complicated to download and install, does any one know other free cobol compilers which are easy to download , install and use
Mahesh,
If it's complicated, I suggest you try solving it (if it is legal).
That will be the right attitude to be a programmer.
enjoy,
Bchat
Re: best free pc cobol to work with
Posted:
Fri Jul 10, 2009 2:27 am
by dick scherrer
Hello,
On a cautionary note. . . .
If the MicroFocus (possibly the most widely used pc cobol compiler) download and install appear that complicated, actually implementing code is likely to be more so. . .
Re: best free pc cobol to work with
Posted:
Tue Jul 28, 2009 4:11 pm
by Anuj Dhawan
Can Herculeus be an option here?
Re: best free pc cobol to work with
Posted:
Tue Jul 28, 2009 10:20 pm
by dick scherrer
Hi Anuj,
Probably not.
If downloading the MicroFocus cobol is difficult, installing an entire mvs world on the pc would be much more so. . .
Re: best free pc cobol to work with
Posted:
Thu Jul 30, 2009 12:04 am
by Anuj Dhawan
-- yeah that's there, Dick.
Re: best free pc cobol to work with
Posted:
Mon Aug 20, 2012 11:42 pm
by Traveler
I just typed into google PC COBOL and Visual COBAL and got a lot of returns. I myself don’t currently have a COBOL compiler on my PC, but I am thinking of the NETCOBOL compiler. All the Visual COBOL will require one of MicroSoft Visual platforms.
hope this helps