COBOLworx Blog

Author: MartyH

1. COBOLworx talk at Carolina Codes 2025

   Jim Lowden presented the first public talk about GCC COBOL (gcobol) at Carolina Codes YouTube Channel, a SouthEastern US polyglot developers convention run by Barry Jones. Jim’s talk is up on Youtube on the convention’s Web site. It went really well and Jim got a lot of attention …

   @MartyH in [ News ] Mon 20 October 2025

2. Replacing COBOL for Operational Flexibility?

   Google Alerts sent me a link to an article which I can’t find on this machine. SAD. But the thing that caught my eye was the claim that someone had to convert their COBOL to “something more modern” for Operational Flexibility. Which, to be polite, is nonsense.

   A COBOL …

   @MartyH in [ Migration ] Tue 26 August 2025