{"id":1203147,"date":"2023-11-15T08:47:45","date_gmt":"2023-11-15T13:47:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/?p=1203147"},"modified":"2023-11-15T08:47:45","modified_gmt":"2023-11-15T13:47:45","slug":"a-gnu-cobol-status-update","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/?p=1203147","title":{"rendered":"A GNU COBOL status update"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For the COBOL users out there, James K. Lowden has <a href=\"https:\/\/lwn.net\/ml\/gcc\/20231113163647.ddbda1708295a0a5e41f9875@schemamania.org\/\">posted<br \/>\nan update<\/a> on the current status of the GNU COBOL compiler.\n<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"bq\"><p>\n\tWhen in November we turn back our clocks, then naturally do<br \/>\n\tprogrammers&#8217; thoughts turn to Cobol, its promise, and future.  <\/p>\n<p>\n\tAt last post, nine months ago, we were working our way through the<br \/>\n\tNIST CCVS\/85 test suite.  I am pleased to report that process is<br \/>\n\tcomplete.  As far as NIST is concerned, gcobol is a Cobol compiler.\n<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\nSource: LWN.net &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/lwn.net\/Articles\/951498\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">A GNU COBOL status update<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For the COBOL users out there, James K. Lowden has posted an update on the current status of the GNU COBOL compiler. When in November we turn back our clocks, then naturally do programmers&#8217; thoughts turn to Cobol, its promise, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/?p=1203147\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[72],"tags":[75],"class_list":["post-1203147","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-linux","tag-linux"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1203147","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1203147"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1203147\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1203147"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1203147"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1203147"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}