ACUCOBOL
| ACUCOBOL-GT | |
|---|---|
| Paradigms : | object-oriented , structured , procedural |
| Publishing year: | 1988 |
| Developer: | Acucorp Corp. |
| Current version : | extend 8 (09/26/2007) |
| Influenced by: | COBOL |
| Operating system : | Windows , AIX , Linux , MPE / iX , OpenVMS , Solaris and many more. (over 600) |
| www.acucorp.com | |
ACUCOBOL is a dialect of the COBOL programming language . The full name is ACUCOBOL-GT. According to the manufacturer, there are around 1,000,000 end users of ACUCOBOL software worldwide.
history
Acucorp was founded in the USA in 1988. Even then, the first compiler was labeled "The Most Portable COBOL in the Universe." (The most portable COBOL in the universe.) Introduced to the public in San Francisco at a UNIX event.
On May 4, 2007, Micro Focus agreed to acquire Acucorp and bought Acucorp for $ 40.7 million.
The manufacturer is constantly busy with further development. At the moment, however, the main work of the developers is the merger of ACUCOBOL-GT and Micro Focus COBOL.
Version 8 enables the seamless integration of ACUCOBOL-GT in Java, including the use of Java GUIs. In addition, the runtime system was ported for Windows x64 and data access to Microsoft SQL databases was implemented directly.
Special features compared to COBOL and other dialects
ACUCOBOL was developed to make COBOL platform independent. A procedure was chosen that is also used by Java today:
A compiler translates the platform-independent source code into special binary code that can be executed by a runtime on the target platform. Thus, only one runtime has to be created for each target platform, which executes the binary code and the source code does not have to be adapted to the platform.
Since the target platforms are extremely different, the binary code must be partially adapted to the target platform, but this can be done without any problems using compiler options; nothing has to be changed in the source code.
Acucorp is constantly developing new ideas to combine new technologies with COBOL. For example, it is possible to use ActiveX controls in graphical user interfaces or to use XML files as data sources. ODBC or JDBC interfaces are also available.
Editors
The ACUCOBOL-GT dialect can actually be written with any text editor. The transfer to the compiler can be done manually via the command line. Acucorp has its own IDE called AcuBench.
The manufacturer also has a plug-in for Eclipse , which is not as mature as Eclipse plug-ins for other languages.
ACUCOBOL-GT compiler
The compiler is developed and maintained by the Acucorp company and also ported to platforms that are not yet supported.
Developing and compiling is not restricted to the target platform due to the use of transportable binary code. A project can be developed and tested under Windows, then provided with the compiler options required for the platform, compiled for the target platform and copied to the target platform.
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- Website of the manufacturer ( Memento of April 21, 2008 in the Internet Archive )
- eUpdate: the manufacturer's newsletter