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by: Arnold Trembley - Wed, 8 Feb 2023 04:28 UTC

----- Forwarded Message -----
From: Simon Sobisch <simonsobisch@gnu.org>
To: "summer-of-code@gnu.org" <summer-of-code@gnu.org>
Cc: "gnucobol-dev@gnu.org" <gnucobol-dev@gnu.org>
Sent: Tuesday, February 7, 2023 at 06:02:33 PM CST
Subject: [GnuCOBOL-Dev] GSOC 2023 project ideas for GnuCOBOL

Summary:
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GnuCOBOL is a free, modern COBOL compiler. It implements a substantial
part of the COBOL 85, X/Open COBOL and newer ISO COBOL standards (2002,
2014, 2023), as well as many extensions included in other COBOL
compilers (IBM COBOL, MicroFocus COBOL, ACUCOBOL-GT and others).

GnuCOBOL translates COBOL into C and internally compiles the translated
code using a native C compiler, therefore works on nearly every platform.
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Url: https://www.gnu.org/software/gnucobol/
Address for contact: gnucobol-dev@gnu.org

Project Ideas:

1 compiler building: rewrite the "listing" code so that it is done in
the parser/lexer (GnuCOBOL currently process the code nearly twice if
this is requested, using different code, so the result is sometimes
different and obviously that isn't well in general) - the output format
and tests are already there (may change where useful)

2 compiler building: modernize error handling with the goal that
user-visible diagnostic showing the problematic code along to the
diagnostic "similar to current GCC", furthermore an option to output in
xml/json would be nice

3 compiler and runtime: add handling for source-code in different
encodings than the "target" (for example as ISO-8859-15, with the target
of UTF-8) and conversion for data between encodings, for example
(extended ASCII encodings to UTF-16/UTF32<->UTF8 and vice versa)

4 (mostly) runtime: extending screenio (currently curses-based) to allow
use of web-clients

Skills necessary to do the work:

1-4 C
1+2 bison/flex
3 iconv
4 web frontends and experience to couple those with C backends,
ideally without the need for an additional web-server

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