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  1. 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

  2. COBOLworx Packages Updated

    Bob just built new Tip Of The Spear GCC COBOL and gdb-cobol packages for Ubuntu 22 and 24. These packages contain work done since the Big Merge for GCC 15.2. For simplicity:

    @Marty in [ misc ] Fri 22 August 2025

  3. Opinion - What To Do About COBOL!!

    The trope is that COBOL is this terrible old thing and “Something Must Be Done!” We disagree.

    @Marty in [ COBOL ] Tue 15 April 2025

  4. Holding our Breath!

    We hear that GCC 15 is hours/days from going into the can for Release.

    @Marty in [ GCC COBOL ] Mon 14 April 2025

  5. April Fools 2025

    COBOL has exploded into a Yuge April Fools Day topic

    @Marty in [ misc ] Fri 04 April 2025

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