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One of the hardest things to do when coding with COBOL is translating a screen design into code. The process may take hours, not to say days. In my old BLIS-COBOL, COBOL 74 and COBOL 80 /85 days (and those last 2 had the SCREEN SECTION which helped a lot !), I recall spending a significant amount of time dedicated to that activity. Time that could be used for more productive activities like coding and resolving bugs, for instance.

...There are still a number of incompatibilities which are either not fixable, or have simple workarounds. As of v0.5, you should be able to write entire PHP applications in Pascal. The key to coding for PAS2PHP is to understand the limitations of PHP. Read the example code provided, and always check the outputed PHP code to understand how this works. As a guide to what PAS2PHP can achieve... my web site is written in Pascal, and then converted to PHP. (The code is in the source package). PAS2PHP uses the Pascal Parse Tree Classes (PasTree) which comes with FreePascal, and therefore the parsing limits are defined by this library.