COBOL
COBOL is an old language which is commonly used in mainframe computers.
Since COBOL is no longer widely taught in academia, there is now a scarcity of COBOL programmers which are needed to maintain old mainframes.
Installation
Linux
- Download GnuCOBOL by following the Install Guide
sudo apt install libgmp-dev libltdl-dev sudo apt install libdb-dev libncurses-dev # Download gnucobol wget -O gnucobol-3.0-rc1.tar.xz https://sourceforge.net/projects/open-cobol/files/gnucobol/3.0/gnucobol-3.0-rc1.tar.xz/download tar xf gnucobol-3.0-rc1.tar.xz # Install cd gnucobol-3.0-rc1.tar.xz ./configure make sudo make install ldconfig