RE: I'm looking for a Cobol to C translator

A recent poster asks about COBOL to C translators. I have tried one; It
was called 'COBLIX-C' or something similar. At the time, the company
producing it had tools called 'FORTRIX-C' and other similarly named tools.
Unfortunately, I've lost the companies name put perhaps the product name
will help in the search.


All things considered, it worked fairly reasonably. But I wonder if the
requestor is hoping to maintain the resulting C code. I found that would
be difficult, because C doesn't have support for most of the standard
COBOL datatypes. So all data manipulation in the resulting C code is
expressed in terms of massive numbers of calls to routines in the COBLIX
runtime. Defining this data was also clumsy.


In short, the resulting C worked but I think it would be more expensive to
maintain the C than the COBOL. But I might be biased too, since I work on
COBOL compilers :-)


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