Re: [open-cobol-list] Oc development.

[studiok]

>   Everyone has their own priorities I guess. Open COBOL currently   
> compiles 100% of our 30+Million lines of COBOL application, we have no   
> screen sections, all the UI code is written in C with Curses which is   
> called from COBOL.
>  The only problem keeping us from using OC in anger is that OC does not   
> yet support nested sub programs with global and local variables. To   
> compile any one of the 4000+ application programs that we have, it   
> needs a manual exercise to strip the nested sub programs out, change to   
> pass the globals through the linkage section and compile each sub   
> program up as a seperate cobol program. It all works if this is done   
> but it's a huge effort.
>  So from my point of view, nested sub programs are more important than  
> file IO or screen handling.

So, again, the question is: what can we do to help and speed-up.
Regards,
Marcello