GnuCOBOL
| GnuCOBOL | |
|---|---|
| Original author(s) | Keisuke Nishida, Roger While |
| Developer(s) | Edward Hart, Sergey Kashyrin, Ron Norman, Simon Sobisch and many others. |
| Initial release | 25 January 2002 |
| Stable release | 3.2.0
/ 28 July 2023 |
| Repository | sf |
| Written in | C, with a C++ branch |
| Size | 2 MB |
| Available in | English, German, Italian, Japanese, Spanish |
| Type | Programming language |
| License | GPL with runtime libraries under LGPL |
| Website | gnu |
GnuCOBOL (formerly known as OpenCOBOL, and briefly as GNU Cobol) is a free implementation of the COBOL programming language that is part of the GNU project. GnuCOBOL translates the COBOL code into C and then compiles it using the native C compiler.