Software to practice coding on PC or Mac

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Software to practice coding on PC or Mac

Postby deals2000 » Sat Mar 18, 2017 3:45 am

Hi all, is there software that i can install on a PC or Mac that will allow me to code, compile and run COBOL programs for practice?


Thanks

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Re: Software to practice coding on PC or Mac

Postby Robert Sample » Sat Mar 18, 2017 5:04 am

Google is your friend. Googling free cobol returns about 1,810,000 hits and one of the first is http://www.freebyte.com/programming/cobol/ which talks about a number of free COBOL compilers that you can install on your PC (maybe some on the MAC as well). I have used GnuCOBOL (previously OpenCOBOL) and it is quite good at replicating z/OS Enterprise COBOL.
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Re: Software to practice coding on PC or Mac

Postby deals2000 » Sat Mar 18, 2017 7:02 am

Thanks for the info
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