alphafoobar/code-kata-cobol

Code Kata COBOL

With all the fuss about a lack of COBOL developers, I thought why give it a go.

Some references:

• https://www.tutorialspoint.com/cobol/index.htm
• http://www.mainframegurukul.com/tutorials/programming/cobol/cobol-tutorial.html
• GnuCobol: https://open-cobol.sourceforge.io/doc/gnucobol.html#Hello-world_0021
• Cobol Dockerfile: https://hub.docker.com/r/gregcoleman/docker-cobol/dockerfile
• cobol-unit-test: https://github.com/neopragma/cobol-unit-test
• cobol-build: https://github.com/mmitch/cobol-build

How to

1. docker build -t my-cobol .
2. export MY_CBL="docker run --rm -v $PWD/.:/working my-cobol"
3. $MY_CBL cobc -x helloworld.cbl
4. $MY_CBL ./helloworld