OpenCOBOL; Looking for a few good men

[btiffin]

Ladies, please excuse the expression. And feel free to volunteer.

Hello,

The OpenCOBOL project is, imho, fast approaching a critical stage. Documents are being written, websites are in development, extensions are increasing the power of the tool, and people are becoming interested.

Roger While is currently the lead developer of the compiler. He is one of those rare programmers that runs rings around the rest of us Joh Average coders. OpenCOBOL translates COBOL to C then invokes a native C compiler. It is an awesome development environment. Growing in capabilities daily.

I'm volunteering with docs, samples and extensions but I'll admit that YACC/LEX is not my forte. Anyone here want to take up the gauntlet and become an apprentice compiler writer? A compiler for a language that is a full 60% of the world's total source code. Estimates of 200 billion lines in production and 5 billion new lines added annually.

This is not a toy. Huge empires rely on COBOL. Governments have strict conformance tests. Serious business.

If you think you have what it takes to run with the big dogs, opportunity knocks.

http://opencobol.org for the forums
http://opencobol.add1tocobol.com/ocfaq.html for some of the early docs

Cheers,
Brian
Edit; Added the links