[open-cobol-list] Fortran and Cobol type systems

[Patrick]

Hi Everyone

There are some things I miss from Ada when I program in Cobol. Ada has 
facilities to match Ada and Cobol types through their interfaces.cobol 
package and I can use Ada but there are some things I don't like about 
Ada too.

Now I am thinking that the strong typing and user defined types from 
Fortran will be enough for me.

It looks like Fortran strings are padded right with spaces and that is 
encouraging. Does anyone know if the numeric and non-numeric type 
systems match well ?

Brian has a neat Fortran-Cobol example on his site but it does not use 
an extensive set of types and I haven't been able to come up with much 
otherwise.

Thanks for reading-Patrick