A GCC COBOL status report

Posted Feb 11, 2023 18:24 UTC (Sat) by khim (subscriber, #9252)
In reply to: A GCC COBOL status report by vasvir
Parent article: A GCC COBOL status report

> Is there any hidden gotchas that my untrained eye didn't spot?

Yes. It's language from 1959, thus predates the language theory by a couple of decades. Grammar is pile of ambiguities and rules of resolutions are unclear and unwritten.

It's relatively easy to use it if you found out how resolution works for your usecases (via trial and error approach), but to write a compiler that actually passes the certification tests is hard and to make it work with real apps… we'll see how it'll work, but I applaud the audacity of these guys.