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The Computer Journal 1979 22(4):290-295; doi:10.1093/comjnl/22.4.290
© 1979 by British Computer Society
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Towards more portable COBOL

T. J. Howkins * and M. T. Harandi *

Department of Computer Science, University of Manchester, Manchester, UK

The advent of the next version of ANSI COBOL focusses attention again on the portability of COBOL. The present ANSI standard allows more then 100,000 permissible implementations. This paper argues that COBOL needs a more rigorously defined implementation scheme which specifically allows for portability, taking cognisance of the user's operating environment and allowing many fewer implementation variants. The need for a more rational subsetting policy is also argued and how this complements the implementation scheme proposed to provide better portability is shown.

Received March 1978.

* Department of Computer Science, University of Manchester, Manchester M13 9PL


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