GnuCOBOL Programmer’s Guide
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1. Introduction This document describes the syntax, semantics and use of the COBOL programming language as implemented by GnuCOBOL, formerly known as OpenCOBOL.
The original principal developers of GnuCOBOL were Keisuke Nishida and Roger While. Since then, many members of the community have been involved in its development.
This document is intended to serve as a fully functional reference and user’s guide, suitable for both those readers learning COBOL for the first time as a training tool, as well as those already familiar with another dialect of COBOL.
A separate manual — containing only the details of the GnuCOBOL implementation and designed for experienced COBOL programmers — has been taken from this guide. That document (GnuCOBOL Quick Reference) contains no training subject matter.
Other documents that should be read is the gnucobol.pdf found in the doc directory of the compiler sources and the file NEWS supplied with the source code of the GnuCOBOL compiler, in the top-level directory. There you will find the latest COBOL language features that have been added, some of which may not be in this document due to time constraints. If you find any, please report it as a bug for the Programmer’s Guide so that it can be fixed.
Yet another document which delves deeper in to the compiler that is a must read, is the FAQ available via the GnuCOBOL Manuals and Guides, although it could do with a wee clean up to ease reading and finding required information.
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