PC Cobol is in business: Micro Focus, Realia and Austec battle. (PC compiler and programming tools vendors)

From: Software Magazine | Date: March 1, 1988| Author: Campbell, Art | Copyright information

The Cobol programming language, although 30 years old, is predicted to enjoy new found popularity due to its applications in recent computing trends such as: upward and downward programming; data migration; porting mainframe applications to desktops; and developing mainframe programs at the PC level. Due to competition among PC compiler vendors, the new Ansi X3.23 Cobol 85 standard has been implemented on PC compilers faster than on mainframe compilers. As PC's roles in business expand, compi...

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