From theregister.com
IBM has announced a COBOL compiler for Linux on x86.
News of the offering appeared in an announcement that states: “IBM COBOL for Linux on x86 1.1 brings IBM’s COBOL compilation technologies and capabilities to the Linux on x86 environment,” and describes it as “the latest addition to the IBM COBOL compiler family, which includes Enterprise COBOL for z/OS and COBOL for AIX.”
COBOL – the common business-oriented language – has its roots in the 1950s and is synonymous with the mainframe age and difficulties paying down technical debt accrued since a bygone era of computing.