title: COBOL Compiler and debugging in a real environment
body: <p>I like to come in touch with compiling and debugging for the COBOL language. What components and independencies are there, for a working near-real-life-as-possible environment? </p>
  
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    <p><strong>Is it possible, in a Win32 environment? Or a modern Intel architecture? If so, are there</strong> 
    <strong>specific bootup, operating system or hardware needed, what more / any?</strong> </p>
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  <p>I was looked at IBM z/OS which not looks like something for 'kids' that aim against a future of full-scale business environment. It also appears to be for z/ architecture processors, nothing you bring "home and start with" like it would with SCALA, Ruby, Haskell and such. </p>
  
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    <p><strong>Most of my Google-time give light over OpenCOBOL, MX Cobol plus some
    more sibblings. I haven't tried those and not sure that they apply what I search for.</strong></p>
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  <p>When I read about those, looking at the problematic that users are commenting, reading the environment FAQ, those software-packets looks like some kind of Sandboxes that make COBOL but with a little "extra extra". There even exist VS .NET implementations of COBOL and GUI's for the development environment! That's why i don't tag OpenCobol and NetCobol.</p>
  
  <p>I looking further a simple <code>"hello world", "array[0..10]", "obj = new objectY" "y | y == false"</code> (language intro of course begin with syntax). The purpose is to came in touch with common business tasks, which have purposes. I.e. read in/out data files, create and use connection against MSSQL, take inputs from a executing software or script and such.</p>