COBOL bridge for Node.js

https://github.com/IonicaBizau/node-cobol

by ionicabizau • 11 years ago

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charriu• 11 years ago

Uh... Neat?

_1• 11 years ago

(Not a JS'er) You can pass a comment as a parameter?

marpstar• 11 years ago

not in the language itself, but you can obtain the full text of a function, detect the comment and parse it, and inject it where ever it needs to go.

STRML• 11 years ago

Yep. "Passing a comment" is used by calling .toString() on the function. It fails when using minification for obvious reasons but of course you wouldn't on Node code.

It's a clever hack around JS's awful multiline string support. But with ES6 template strings it's not really needed anymore.

untog• 11 years ago

You can, but I'm a little confused as to why you would, instead of just passing a string.

Fits in with the esoteric nature of the library, though.

maxmcd• 11 years ago

Possibly because multiline strings are not supported?

dark_ph0enix• 11 years ago

But why?

jschwartzi• 11 years ago

It gives you a way to connect your enterprise system to your corporate intranet.

tolle• 11 years ago

Seems like a pretty stupid way to do it. Why not just use the raw data from the data files or direct access to the DB/2 database? Does this even handle the ebcdic to ascii conversion? Or packed decimal numbers?

protomyth• 11 years ago

The same reason you could write part of your site in COBOL (Micro Focus) because you have a large body of legacy and need to get to the web.

jackweirdy• 11 years ago

Atwood's Law

jevgeni• 11 years ago

(silent tears of joy)

vittore• 11 years ago

Every time I was reading about old COBOL systems, I was wondering if we can compile COBOL to asm.js, this is slightly other direction but IMHO this topic requires more love.

exabrial• 11 years ago

Wow, match made in heaven!

COBOL bridge for Node.js

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