New learning website for COBOL in the making

Christopher Bahn

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Nov 11, 2012, 4:49:04 AM11/11/12

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Hi everybody,

I just beginning learning COBOL and want to help me and others with example source code for studying. Therefore, I set up a website which shall contain a small database with code: https://sites.google.com/site/cobolcode/

Any code "donation" (not meant in a transfer of copy rights, but showing at the homepage) would be highly appreciated. Thanks a lot!

Kind regards,

Christopher

Charles Hottel

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Nov 11, 2012, 11:56:06 AM11/11/12

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"Christopher Bahn" <cbb...@gmail.com> wrote in message
news:b8117739-d5ce-4041...@googlegroups.com...

The short program at your link looks like Java. How does that help anyone
learn COBOL?

Luuk

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Nov 11, 2012, 12:24:43 PM11/11/12

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As Charles said, it looks like Java,
so maybe you should heve use Google,
because than you would have found:
http://groups.engin.umd.umich.edu/CIS/course.des/cis400/cobol/hworld.html

000100 IDENTIFICATION DIVISION.
000200 PROGRAM-ID. HELLOWORLD.
000300
000400*
000500 ENVIRONMENT DIVISION.
000600 CONFIGURATION SECTION.
000700 SOURCE-COMPUTER. RM-COBOL.
000800 OBJECT-COMPUTER. RM-COBOL.
000900
001000 DATA DIVISION.
001100 FILE SECTION.
001200
100000 PROCEDURE DIVISION.
100100
100200 MAIN-LOGIC SECTION.
100300 BEGIN.
100400 DISPLAY " " LINE 1 POSITION 1 ERASE EOS.
100500 DISPLAY "Hello world!" LINE 15 POSITION 10.
100600 STOP RUN.
100700 MAIN-LOGIC-EXIT.
100800 EXIT.

and is 'hello world' not the standard first program that anyone wants to
write when he (or she) is learning a 'new' language ?

Anonymous

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Nov 12, 2012, 8:19:25 AM11/12/12

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Luuk <lu...@invalid.lan> wrote:

> and is 'hello world' not the standard first program that anyone wants to
> write when he (or she) is learning a 'new' language ?

No, it is not, especially not in this case since COBOL came out in 1959 and
"Hello, World!" didn't come out until K&R in 1978.

Do the math!

>

Christopher Bahn

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Nov 12, 2012, 9:29:34 AM11/12/12

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That is true, but it is meant only as illustration of "source code".

Luuk

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Nov 12, 2012, 2:16:50 PM11/12/12

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Can i borrow someone's calculator?

;)

HeyBub

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Nov 13, 2012, 2:06:58 PM11/13/12

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You could write a program ...

Luuk

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Nov 13, 2012, 3:01:20 PM11/13/12

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000100 IDENTIFICATION DIVISION.
000200 PROGRAM-ID. HELLOWORLD.
000300
000400*
000500 ENVIRONMENT DIVISION.
000600 CONFIGURATION SECTION.
000700 SOURCE-COMPUTER. RM-COBOL.
000800 OBJECT-COMPUTER. RM-COBOL.
000900
001000 DATA DIVISION.
001100 FILE SECTION.
001200
100000 PROCEDURE DIVISION.
100100
100200 MAIN-LOGIC SECTION.
100300 BEGIN.
100400 DISPLAY " " LINE 1 POSITION 1 ERASE EOS.

100500 DISPLAY "What time has past between 1959 and 1978:", 100600
1978-1959 .
100700 STOP RUN.
100800 MAIN-LOGIC-EXIT.
100900 EXIT.

But my coding skills are a bit...... not used for some time...

Rick Smith

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Nov 13, 2012, 6:31:13 PM11/13/12

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On Sunday, November 11, 2012 12:30:02 PM UTC-5, Luuk wrote:

[snip]

> 000100 IDENTIFICATION DIVISION.
> 000200 PROGRAM-ID. HELLOWORLD.
> 000300
> 000400*
> 000500 ENVIRONMENT DIVISION.
> 000600 CONFIGURATION SECTION.
> 000700 SOURCE-COMPUTER. RM-COBOL.
> 000800 OBJECT-COMPUTER. RM-COBOL.
> 000900
> 001000 DATA DIVISION.
> 001100 FILE SECTION.
> 001200
> 100000 PROCEDURE DIVISION.
> 100100
> 100200 MAIN-LOGIC SECTION.
> 100300 BEGIN.
> 100400 DISPLAY " " LINE 1 POSITION 1 ERASE EOS.
> 100500 DISPLAY "Hello world!" LINE 15 POSITION 10.
> 100600 STOP RUN.
> 100700 MAIN-LOGIC-EXIT.
> 100800 EXIT.

FYI, the minimum program conforming to the COBOL 85 standard is:
-----
identification division.
program-id. hello.
procedure division.
begin.
display "Hello world!".
-----

For COBOL 2002, it is (or should be):
-----
program-id. hello.
procedure division.
display "Hello world!".
-----

TruthSlave

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Nov 18, 2012, 3:53:18 PM11/18/12

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Back in the day i wrote a COBOL compiler for a now obscure platform, the
amiga. I ported the program to linux but never got around to
publishing it.

It came with a number of reasonable programming examples, if you're
interested you could have those in a zip.

SkippyPB

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Nov 19, 2012, 10:27:54 AM11/19/12

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On Sun, 18 Nov 2012 20:53:18 +0000, TruthSlave <T...@home.com> wrote:

>On 11/11/12 09:49, Christopher Bahn wrote:
>> Hi everybody,
>>
>> I just beginning learning COBOL and want to help me and others
>> with example source code for studying. Therefore, I set up a
>> website which shall contain a small database with code:
>> https://sites.google.com/site/cobolcode/
>>
>> Any code "donation" (not meant in a transfer of copy rights,
>> but showing at the homepage) would be highly appreciated. Thanks a lot!
>>
>> Kind regards,
>>
>> Christopher
>
>
>Back in the day i wrote a COBOL compiler for a now obscure platform, the
>amiga. I ported the program to linux but never got around to
>publishing it.
>

Too bad the Amiga is now obscure. It was far better than Windows or
Apple but had a bunch of knuckleheads as CEOs.

>It came with a number of reasonable programming examples, if you're
>interested you could have those in a zip.

Regards,
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Steve

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Nov 20, 2012, 1:48:57 AM11/20/12

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Christopher,

I would advise you to always use a Monospace font, while displaying Cobol Code Samples on your site.

Thank you very much,

Quasar Chunawala

Christopher Bahn

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Nov 20, 2012, 8:30:30 AM11/20/12

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Hi,

that would be great: christop...@aol.com

Christopher Bahn

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Nov 20, 2012, 8:30:56 AM11/20/12

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Thanks for the hint!

Christopher Bahn

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Nov 20, 2012, 8:31:58 AM11/20/12

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Thanks!