lawitzke@eecae.UUCP (11/02/87)
Does anyone know of a PD, shareware, or inexpensive COBOL compiler for an IBM PC/XT under MS-DOS? I am in the process of learning COBOL and it would make the process alot easier if I could run COBOL at home. Failing being able to find an inexpensive one, could anyone recommend any COBOL for the IBM PC? (I might convince my money man that COBOL has an engineering application ;-) -- j UUCP: ...ihnp4!msudoc!eecae!lawitzke "And it's just a box of rain..." ARPA: lawitzke@eecae.ee.msu.edu (35.8.8.151)
ken@pyr.gatech.EDU (Ken Hall) (11/03/87)
In article <3626@eecae.UUCP> lawitzke@eecae.ee.msu.edu (John Lawitzke) writes: >Does anyone know of a PD, shareware, or inexpensive COBOL compiler >for an IBM PC/XT under MS-DOS? I am in the process of learning COBOL and >it would make the process alot easier if I could run COBOL at home. > >Failing being able to find an inexpensive one, could anyone recommend >any COBOL for the IBM PC? (I might convince my money man that COBOL has >an engineering application ;-) The best COBOL around has to be REALIA. They are located in Chicago. I believe you can buy it for around $750. Not inexpensive, but worth it.
wmm@sdti.UUCP (William M. Miller) (11/03/87)
In article <3626@eecae.UUCP> lawitzke@eecae.ee.msu.edu (John Lawitzke) writes: >Does anyone know of a PD, shareware, or inexpensive COBOL compiler >for an IBM PC/XT under MS-DOS? The least expensive one of which I am aware is "Utah COBOL" from Ellis Computing, (702) 827-3030; $69.95. I have no idea of the quality. Other COBOL compilers which seem to be fairly highly regarded are from Microsoft, Ryan-McFarland, and Realia, but those are all multi-hundred dollar jobs. It seems to me that I remember a comparative review of COBOL implementations on the PC perhaps 6 months or a year ago in BYTE or Computer Language; if you have access to back issues, you might check there. -- Non-disclaimer: My boss and I always see eye-to-eye (every time I look in the mirror). ...!genrad!mrst!sdti!wmm
leather@osiris.cso.uiuc.edu (11/05/87)
And if He/She buys that (COBOL for engineering), you could get a purchase order for a FORTRAN compiler to support the development of a natural-language parser, or a little swampland ... ;-)