well I have a class of COBOL in college (soooo boring) and I can't find a editor/compiler to work at home. I would like to know where I could get one (like Microfocus animator). COBOL is boring but I don't have a choice... anyone can help me? thx
http://open-cobol.sourceforge.net/ You'll need a linux or FreeBSD machine to run it though. It's in the FreeBSD ports collection, so it should be pretty painless of FreeBSD. http://tiny-cobol.sourceforge.net/ May be suitable for you and runs on windoze.
Being one of the special people who hated COBOL but was forced to learn it (just like you), I actually submitted a COBOL editor as a thesis proposal back in college, but my prof said: "who would use such a thing? don't waste your time." I thought, a character count limiter or even a sytax checker would be of great help. but nooo. I guess they didn't want us to be dependent on automatic syntax checking since over 50% of COBOL errors are due to syntax errors. you get 100 errors just because you forgot to put a "." or a "-".
