On Fri, Nov 07, 2014 at 02:23:01AM -0500, Brian Tiffin wrote:
Mayuresh Kathe wrote:
hello,
i am initiating a personal project to improve conditions in rural india
by effecting social change via technology.
for the same, i have chosen to go ahead with cobol-85 due to it's
impressive record-oriented data manipulation abilities.
it being a self-funded effort, i can't afford to go for big iron stuff
>from ibm, etc.
hence, i would prefer to go with open-cobol running under a highly
modified linux system.
i have come to realize that open-cobol does not yet have full support
for the cobol-85 standard.
who be the right person to communicate with regarding raising a bounty
to bring in full cobol-85 support to open-cobol?
What parts have you found missing, Mayuresh? It's pretty close, no?
Post messages on SourceForge at
http://sourceforge.net/p/open-cobol/discussion/contrib/
umm, maybe?
You've seen the "make test" results from the tests/cobol85
subdirectory? 400 and some programs over 9700 and some passes of
the NIST cobol85 test suite. It's gotta be close to full already,
no? It might not take much to get it to where you'd like to see it,
Mayuresh.
http://opencobol.add1tocobol.com/gnucobol/#does-gnucobol-pass-the-nist-test-suite
brian, thanks for writing in.
i have been informed by vince coen about the full cobol-85 compliance in
v2+ of gnucobol.
i am really thankful for your efforts, if you have an amazon.com
wishlist, please share, would like to have some small way to express my
gratitude.