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COBOL IDE, Compiler for Linux

Posted by michael on from the new-tricks-for-old-dogs dept.

Grizzly writes "Okay, go ahead and laugh. But there's a lot of COBOL out there, and that has kept a lot of businesses, especially outside the United States, from even looking at Linux. Linux and Main has a story on KOBOL and how it might make bringing those COBOL apps over to Linux possible."

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  1. back to the future by Pauly · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    "...it might make bringing those COBOL apps over to Linux possible..."

    Please don't.

    Programs written for mainframes suck no matter where you run them. Paying people to sit around to watch batch jobs run is stupid no matter whether they're watching a 3270 terminal or an xterm.