Hi, this blog is dedicated to COBOL and my main
interest is sharing some personal notes and opinions about what I particularly consider as best coding style and features of the COBOL language. I also try to approach ways of mitigating some of the language shortcomings.
For the most part I should stick to COBOL-85. On occasion I may take advantage of minor extensions or specifics, such as intrinsic functions or file status codes and so on, but hopefully nothing that could prevent a successful porting with minor adjustments. Nevertheless, certain deviations may certainly happen in special cases such as when devising ways to circumventing the limited resource capacity of the 16-bit environments.
Regards!
