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Has anyone ever built an interface ( software and / or custom keyboard ) specifically for interfacing with the terrible UI / ergonomics of COBOL / mainframe sys
by adamsea 7y ago
Has anyone ever built an interface ( software and / or custom keyboard ) specifically for interfacing with the terrible UI / ergonomics of COBOL / mainframe systems like this?
Basically, has anyone ever built modern dev tooling or custom hardware to reduce the pain?
- ratboy666 7y agoDepends on what you mean. For example, my editor (which I use for work like this) MODE-'COBOL' 72.b -.a -.t -.h 8.h 12.h .r Roughly: for COBOL - ring alarm bell if I type past column 72. Do not autoindent. Do not use tabs (spaces only). Remove all tabulation except at column 8 and column 12. For FORTRAN 66 (77) work, I just set a single tabulation at column 7. But that is just me. You should look into THE: The Hessling Editor on linux, etc. Look into Regina Rexx. which would be all the "tooling" needed. You could run a mainframe emulator (look into Hercules) How is 80 column "punch card" style editing and printer output terrible?