Re: [Tiny-cobol-users] Doc plan

[Scott B. <sm...@ve...>]

 
> About the GCC online documentation, for me no problem.
> Jim Morcombe and some users of this list start the development of a Free Language Reference for TinyCOBOL. Jim, what is the current status of this language reference?

I haven't heard from Jim. 

> What do you think about the idea of start a TinyCOBOL User's Manual from the TinyCOBOL FAQ pages? As you said, the FAQ contents need to be reorganized.

Your FAQ looks like a great start for the user and reference manuals.

> I think that we should write our documentation with basis that the TC user are a beginner. 
> The most of COBOL programmers when they try to port your systems for a another COBOL compiler they ask for a good documentation because some COBOL compilers doesn't have a good documentation. 

My best guess is that most of the COBOL programmers who try TC will be
mainframe people.   Mainframe programmers are used to having their
programming environment set up for them by system administrators.  So I
agree that we should assume that the person using TC will be a beginner,
especially with Unix, but they will typically have some experience with
COBOL already.  I'm also anticipating that a lot of developers will be
guys like you who use English as a second language.