http://smeans.com Ripping the envelope of software development, one technology at a time. Tue, 06 Oct 2009 13:47:26 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 http://smeans.com/2008/04/15/ive-seen-the-future-and-the-future-is-cobol/ http://smeans.com/2008/04/15/ive-seen-the-future-and-the-future-is-cobol/#comments Tue, 15 Apr 2008 20:41:38 +0000 smeans http://smeans.com/2008/04/15/ive-seen-the-future-and-the-future-is-cobol/ Ok, so in the process of migrating to my new laptop I’ve been forced to look at several of my old projects. I don’t remember where I found the time, but ten years ago I must have written a _lot_ of code. One of the more bizarre projects I did back then was a Y2K solution that involved cross-compiling COBOL programs to Java bytecode. I only implemented about 50% of the COBOL feature set back then, but it still turns out to be 600+ source files and who-knows-how-many thousands of LOCs.
So rather than let it sit on my hard drive gathering virtual dust, I’ve created a Sourceforge project for it. Check out the Universal COBOL Compiler project when you have a chance. There’s nothing out there but a one-paragraph synopsis and a bunch of code in the CVS repository, but at least it’s not hidden on my computer anymore!

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