Project Summary
GnuCOBOL is a free, modern COBOL compiler. GnuCOBOL implements a substantial part of the COBOL 85, COBOL 2002 and COBOL 2014 standards and X/Open COBOL, as well as many extensions included in other COBOL compilers.
GnuCOBOL translates COBOL into C and compiles the translated code using a native C compiler. Build COBOL programs on various platforms, including GNU/Linux, Unix, Mac OS X, and Microsoft Windows. GnuCOBOL has also been built on HP/UX, z/OS, SPARC, RS6000, AS/400, along with other combinations of machines and operating systems.
While being held to a high level of quality and robustness, GnuCOBOL does not claim to be a “Standard Conforming” implementation of COBOL.
GnuCOBOL passes over 9600 of the NIST COBOL 85 test suite tests and over 750 internal checks during build.
In a Nutshell, GnuCOBOL (formerly OpenCOBOL)...
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has a well established, mature codebase
maintained by a large development team
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took an estimated 93 years of effort (COCOMO model)
starting with its first commit in November, 2001
ending with its most recent commit about 1 year ago
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