Any open source COBOL projects?

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I'm finding it very difficult to find resources for learning COBOL. In fact, I can't find any examples of non-trivial programs written in COBOL. GitHub searches seem to just show homework assignments or benchmarks.Does anyone know of any out there?

simonblack · Accepted Answer

The way to learn any language is to give yourself a project. Any project, it doesn't matter what. You will throw that 'learning one' away anyway, because the more-learned you will see how primitive it is, and rewrite it several times till you are (pretty much) satisfied with it.A simple enough project, but one that is sort of useful, is to use your own income/expenditure information to produce the sort of information that you (or your accountant) will require to work out your taxes.That's one of the projects I have used anyway. I first wrote mine in BASIC, then in COBOL, and my latest in a mixture of C and SQL.

cpach · Answer

Interesting!There are some COBOL resources at the Internet Archive: https://archive.org/search.php?query=cobolNot sure if they have actual COBOL application code though.You might also find interesting stuff at Bitsavers: https://www.google.com/search?q=bitsavers.orgBest of luck!

Any open source COBOL projects?

I'm finding it very difficult to find resources for learning COBOL. In fact, I can't find any examples of non-trivial programs written in COBOL. GitHub searches seem to just show homework assignments or benchmarks.
Does anyone know of any out there?

Interesting!
There are some COBOL resources at the Internet Archive: https://archive.org/search.php?query=cobol
Not sure if they have actual COBOL application code though.
You might also find interesting stuff at Bitsavers: https://www.google.com/search?q=bitsavers.org
Best of luck!