Commander X16

Edmond D wrote: ↑Thu Mar 28, 2024 6:57 pm Having tried to understand COBOL, I could see BASIC being plausible for simple payroll calculations.

Having programmed in COBOL and BASIC, I can tell you first-hand that while you /could/ create a BASIC payroll program, you really wouldn't want to. COBOL is designed for these types of applications. After all the "B" does stand for "Business".

ahenry3068 wrote: ↑Fri Mar 29, 2024 3:07 am

Edmond D wrote: ↑Thu Mar 28, 2024 11:14 pm

funkheld wrote: ↑Thu Mar 28, 2024 9:16 pm comal 80 for the x16 would be great.
on the c64 there is the wonderful cobol80.
The x16 has great properties from the c64.

greeting

No, thank you.

I will have to say I find it pretty remarkable that there is such a thing as COBOL on the C64, in any form at all. I do 2nd Edmond's no thank you though... I think I might do "Hello World" just for S's & G's but I don't think I would go further than that.

I had a copy of that back in the day, but I never used it to learn Cobol ... I got heavily enough into Forth that it sucked up the time available for programming until I learned C in the early 90's to use in my dissertation, and that was on a two disk drive DOS computer rather than on my C64.