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- From: fjh@munta.cs.mu.OZ.AU (Fergus James HENDERSON)
- Subject: Re: cobol
- Message-ID: <9302421.22722@mulga.cs.mu.OZ.AU>
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- Organization: Computer Science, University of Melbourne, Australia
- References: <1993Jan13.4605.763@dosgate> <1jm43fINN8rv@mirror.digex.com> <1993Jan21.133510.4271@mfltd.co.uk>
- Date: Sun, 24 Jan 1993 10:38:13 GMT
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- jfid@mfltd.co.uk (James Fidell (x5320)) writes:
-
- >In fact, the Micro Focus COBOL compiler (and many of the other tools) *are*
- >written in COBOL. (Yes, I was gob-smacked when I found out as well :-). I
- >do believe you'd have to be a masochist to want to do it, but then again,
- >the compiler ports to just about any system first time, which is more than
- >can be said for the C runtime.
-
- The difference is due to the nature of the tasks, not the languages used
- to implement them. It would be easy enough to write a completely portable
- compiler in C.
-
- Is the Micro Focus COBOL compiler actually written and compiled in Micro
- Focus COBOL? That would make it fairly inefficient. (I'm presuming from
- what you said above that Micro Focus uses a runtime interpreter.)
-
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