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You can find videos on Youtube, it's like an IDE where you would do everything in a user interface with menus, but the interface is a 25x80-char screen only :-) Everything is "almo…

The goal of SuperBOL ( https://superbol.eu ) is to allow companies to migrate from mainframes to Linux workstations, to get a "modern" experience of development and deployment. Ind…

We are among the major contributors to GnuCOBOL, we use https://github.com/OCamlPro/gnucobol to review our contributions before pushing them on the SVN of Sourceforge. Cobolworx is…

COBOL is not dead, but it's difficult to get access to, because there is almost no open-source tooling around it for Linux. We (OCamlPro) have created a project, called SuperBOL, t…

Who said COBOL was not trendy ? A new version of the COBOL ISO standard was released this year (January 2023) A brand new stable release 3.2 of the free open-source compiler GnuCOB…

We recently worked on a project to build a binary installer for OCaml, inspired from RustUp for Rust. We had to build binary packages of the distribution for every OCaml version si…

You are comparing different things. OCaml strength is safety, it verifies at compile time that your program is safe, correct apart algorithmic errors. Once it compiles, you are alm…