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From: davido@asylum.SF.CA.US (David Ornstein)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: COBOL + BASIC/Lotus I/O Queries
Keywords: COBOL for PCs? Dumping BASIC programs and Lotus sheets?
Message-ID: <7777@asylum.SF.CA.US>
Date: 18 Oct 89 20:42:43 GMT
References: <3916@cbnewsc.ATT.COM>
Reply-To: davido@asylum.UUCP (David Ornstein)
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In article <3916@cbnewsc.ATT.COM> olaf@cbnewsc.ATT.COM (olaf.henjum) writes:
>I have three unrelated questions regarding a newly acquired PC/AT clone:
>
>(a) Are there "good" implementations of COBOL for PCs?
>    (PLEASE, NO comments about what a lousy language COBOL is!
>    There is a legitimate business purpose involved that is not mine
>    to decide w.r.t. the implementation language!)
>
>    If so, what are they and who sells them for how much?

The real market leader is Micro Focus COBOL.  Especially with their
latest release, they have started really taking COBOL is some good
(system-ee) directions.

The previous release is also what is distributed as Microsoft's
COBOL...



>
>   -- Olaf Henjum (arpa!att!ihlpf!olaf)


David Ornstein
Sage Software
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