I was using MicroFocus before and I had installed it when I was running Vista. Then I did an upgrade installation to Windows 7 RC and everything was still running smoothly. Then I did a clean install of Windows 7 and, apparently, it isn't compatible for whatever reason. Jun 1, 2018 - GnuCOBOL (formerly OpenCOBOL) is a free COBOL compiler. This page includes free downloads of ready-to-install copies of GnuCOBOL for Windows. 1 (23Apr2018) for Windows XP, Vista, 7, 8/8.1, and Windows 10.
COBOL is not particularly popular on Linux but there are compilers available. One of these is open-cobol. First step is to check if it's installed on your system: it probably isn't. Whereis cobc; which cobc cobc: If like my system it is not installed you can install it with sudo apt-get install open-cobol And to check its installed whereis cobc; which cobc cobc: /usr/bin/cobc /usr/bin/X11/cobc /usr/share/man/man1/cobc.1.gz /usr/bin/cobc Now lets write our first program with any text editor. IDENTIFICATION DIVISION. simple hello world program PROCEDURE DIVISION.
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DISPLAY 'Hello world!'