; Date: Tue Jul 18 2006
Tags: OpenJDK
I was thinking the other day - what with the Visual Basic compiler for Java, it would make sense for there to be a COBOL compiler for Java. That way we could draw on yet another large body of software to run on top of the Java runtime.
Okay, so I get strange thoughts occasionally.
Of course the first step would be a grammer to parse the language .. the next step then would be a compiler to convert that to byte codes.
Well ... this guy
A JavaCC grammar for Cobol found one here
Hurm... It's under the LGPL so someone who has a hankering could take it and run with it.
Source:
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