• I would like to hear from anyone who uses GNU cobol or Raincode in dail

    From Bill goodman@21:1/5 to All on Sat Apr 8 12:23:32 2023
    I would like to hear from anyone who uses GNU cobol or Raincode in daily developement or production in a business environment? What has been your experiance with these 2 compilers?
    thanks

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  • From Vincent Coen@21:1/5 to Bill goodman on Sun Apr 9 01:15:22 2023
    Hello Bill!

    Saturday April 08 2023 20:23, Bill goodman wrote to All:

    Subject: I would like to hear from anyone who uses GNU cobol or
    Raincode in daily developement or production in a business
    environment? What has been your experiance with these 2 compilers?

    Raincode no - did try it but have too many issues and even more for
    Heirloom could not even compile its own sample programs.
    Did pass the issue to its support with zero response - so gave up on both/

    These two are commercial products.
    Not used Cobol-IT as it is based on opencobol compiler v1 but they do not
    abide by the software license (open source) and provide the compiler source
    to create the current version etc.

    GnuCobol has a larger block of support for the Cobol standards up to last
    year - It is NOT commercial so some times bug fixes take a while but one's
    I have noticed as critical have been dealt with quick - it does not
    happen often..

    I would like to hear from anyone who uses GNU cobol or Raincode in
    daily developement or production in a business environment? What has
    been your experiance with these 2 compilers? thanks

    Application exceeding 1 M lines in production - well in excess but almost
    all under *nix but there is some under Windowz.

    I am not the only one as there are a reasonable number that frequent the GnuCobol forums with similar numbers and may be a lot more including s/w houses.


    Vincent

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