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I've been playing with GNU COBOL for fun, and while it implements a lot of the language, it lacks integration with external systems. For example, you'd expect
by lokedhs 8y ago
I've been playing with GNU COBOL for fun, and while it implements a lot of the language, it lacks integration with external systems.
For example, you'd expect there to be a simple way to open a network connection. I mean, doing REST calls is one of the fundamental ways you communicate with other services these days. Well, GNU COBOL has no such libraries.
Another thing COBOL is famous for is good SQL integration. As far as I understand you have language-level integration with DB2 on the mainframes. Doing the same on Linux with Postgres would be nice, but there is no database integration at all. You're limited to flat files, whose names are hardcoded in the source code.