Re: Business of Compilers

"Jeremy Wright" <jeremy.wright@microfocus.com>
Tue, 18 May 2010 15:08:05 +0100

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From: "Jeremy Wright" <jeremy.wright@microfocus.com>
Newsgroups: comp.compilers
Date: Tue, 18 May 2010 15:08:05 +0100
Organization: Compilers Central
References: 10-05-088 10-05-090
Keywords: Cobol, practice, history
Posted-Date: 19 May 2010 00:58:16 EDT

"Walter Banks" <walter@bytecraft.com> wrote in message
> Essentially all of the compilers on the market now are created in a
> partnership between the silicon companies or instruction set IP
> owners and compiler companies.


This is not true for COBOL.


The company I work for, Micro Focus, sells over $200M of COBOL
products every year on Windows and all the major *ix. AcuCorp and
Liant were also profitable independent COBOL companies (so we bought
them !). Fujitsu and LegacyJ also sell COBOL compilers.


Liant also had a PL/I compiler, which Micro Focus now supports and is
porting to new platforms. Kendos also support PL/I.


Dyalog support APL.


COBOL, PL/I and APL are all languages that were implemented and used
reasonably extensively on IBM mainframes in the 60's. This is
presumably why they still have a large enough user base to support
independent commercial languages vendors.


Jeremy


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