I just picked up an MSPress book on ASP.net with C#, and in the introduction
it said that there were (are?) plans for a COBOL compiler for the CLR at some
point in the future.

My dad (who wrote COBOL for many, many years) is interested in doing some
development in the near future, and was wondering how far out such a compiler
might be. Any ideas?

I'd prefer to see something in Visual Studio, but if there is some 3rd party
thing out there, that would be nice too.
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Google is your friend!
http://www.adtools.com/products/windows/netcobol.html


"ChrisWis" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
news:91BC8540-9C34-416F-89A0-(E-Mail Removed)...
>I just picked up an MSPress book on ASP.net with C#, and in the
>introduction
> it said that there were (are?) plans for a COBOL compiler for the CLR at
> some
> point in the future.
>
> My dad (who wrote COBOL for many, many years) is interested in doing some
> development in the near future, and was wondering how far out such a
> compiler
> might be. Any ideas?
>
> I'd prefer to see something in Visual Studio, but if there is some 3rd
> party
> thing out there, that would be nice too.
> --
> I love cheese

Check out this link. It has some useful info.
http://www.adtools.com/products/windows/netcobol.html


"ChrisWis" wrote:

> I just picked up an MSPress book on ASP.net with C#, and in the introduction
> it said that there were (are?) plans for a COBOL compiler for the CLR at some
> point in the future.
>
> My dad (who wrote COBOL for many, many years) is interested in doing some
> development in the near future, and was wondering how far out such a compiler
> might be. Any ideas?
>
> I'd prefer to see something in Visual Studio, but if there is some 3rd party
> thing out there, that would be nice too.
> --
> I love cheese

Thanks!
--
I love cheese


"maheer" wrote:

> Check out this link. It has some useful info.
> http://www.adtools.com/products/windows/netcobol.html
>
>
> "ChrisWis" wrote:
>
> > I just picked up an MSPress book on ASP.net with C#, and in the introduction
> > it said that there were (are?) plans for a COBOL compiler for the CLR at some
> > point in the future.
> >
> > My dad (who wrote COBOL for many, many years) is interested in doing some
> > development in the near future, and was wondering how far out such a compiler
> > might be. Any ideas?
> >
> > I'd prefer to see something in Visual Studio, but if there is some 3rd party
> > thing out there, that would be nice too.
> > --
> > I love cheese

Don't believe everything you read on the internet.
--
I love cheese


"Lloyd Dupont" wrote:

> Google is your friend!
> http://www.adtools.com/products/windows/netcobol.html
>
>
> "ChrisWis" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
> news:91BC8540-9C34-416F-89A0-(E-Mail Removed)...
> >I just picked up an MSPress book on ASP.net with C#, and in the
> >introduction
> > it said that there were (are?) plans for a COBOL compiler for the CLR at
> > some
> > point in the future.
> >
> > My dad (who wrote COBOL for many, many years) is interested in doing some
> > development in the near future, and was wondering how far out such a
> > compiler
> > might be. Any ideas?
> >
> > I'd prefer to see something in Visual Studio, but if there is some 3rd
> > party
> > thing out there, that would be nice too.
> > --
> > I love cheese
>
>
>

ChrisWis wrote:

> I just picked up an MSPress book on ASP.net with C#, and in the
> introduction it said that there were (are?) plans for a COBOL
> compiler for the CLR at some point in the future.
>
> My dad (who wrote COBOL for many, many years) is interested in doing
> some development in the near future, and was wondering how far out
> such a compiler might be. Any ideas?
>
> I'd prefer to see something in Visual Studio, but if there is some
> 3rd party thing out there, that would be nice too.

Microfocus is moving towards Managed Cobol and plans to replace their
current Windows IDE with a VS .NET plugin.

Cheers,
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