Learn the basics of an ancient nerdy language: COBOL
a project by slahl
Updated almost 3 years ago. 4 hacker ♥️.

COBOL is weird.

COBOL is strange.

COBOL is the first practical high level programming language human kind invented.

COBOL put man on the moon.

COBOL goes open source with the GNU cobol compiler.

COBOL is BASIC for grown ups.

COBOL is orderly with DIVISIONs and CHAPTERs.

COBOL has proper punctuation and the type safety of Perl.

Let's PERFORM.

The goal of the project is to understand the COBOL PERFORM statement and implement a simple version of ed, the standard UNIX editor, in COBOL.

GNU COBOL, formerly Open Cobol

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