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My programming history goes back to 1963. So compilers : EE - Leo 3 1959-1964+ IBM from 1963 ANSI Cobol - 360-> OS/VS - 360/70. OS/VS2 and later ditto ICL 1900, 2900, 3900 compilers.from 1968/9. from 1970 Burroughs - what was used ? Honeywell ditto Cray ditto CDC ditto and others I have forgotten Some of the above was worked on at a similar time as I also worked as freelance Almost all them could cause the same issues with things like missing periods of other typos. As fo producing a lot of error...
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Sorry to dissolution you but many compilers can get lost in a similar way - a compiler is not a mind reader. On 25/05/2026 15:02, Ralph Linkletter wrote: I was looking for relief for a user base transitioning from IBM or Micro Focus COBOL to using GnuCOBOL. A simple syntax error can result in 1000''s of meaningless diagnostics. Apparently the parser, or scanner, or Bison, or YACC gets "lost". Meaning the parser scanner cannot advance to a valid COBOL token after encountering some set of syntax or...
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New corrections on some points of the manual
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Failed build - missing "end smallexample" had "end small example" Took me 30 minutes to find the issue. Please be more carefull.
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Personal Data
- Username:
- vcoen
- Joined:
- 2001-06-05 18:41:07
- Location:
- Hatfield, Hertfordshire / Britain (UK) / BST
- Gender:
- Male
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Projects
This is a list of open source software projects that Vincent (Bryan) Coen is associated with:
- Applewood Computers Accounting System Accounting system for smaller companies written in GnuCobol. Last Updated:
- Cobxref Cobol Cross reference tool for GnuCobol written in Cobol Last Updated:
- Filemgr Filemgr a BBS file & .tic tosser Last Updated:
- Flightlog Last Updated:
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GnuCOBOL A free COBOL compiler Last Updated:
- MBSE BBS for Linux & Unix MBSE BBS is a full FTN-capable ANSI BBS and mailer package. Last Updated:
Skills
This is a list of skills that Vincent (Bryan) Coen possesses:
- Operating System
- C
- COBOL
