Welcome! TinyCOBOL is a COBOL compiler being developed by members of the free software community.

Our Mission is producing a COBOL compiler based on the COBOL 85 standards.

TinyCOBOL is avaliable for the Intel architecture(IA32) and compatible processors on the following platforms:

All the above systems use the GCC compiler.

TinyCOBOL is distributed under the following licenses:

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January 1, 2011
Development of TinyCOBOL, by the current maintainer, has come to an end. Consequently version 0.66 will be the final release.

Anyone who would like to further develop TinyCOBOL, and become the project maintainer, please post a request to the official mailing list. All applicants will be considered. Fluency in English would be beneficial, but it is not a prerequisite.

August 28, 2010
Version 0.66 released.

January 13, 2010
Due to a problem with Bison version 0.65.9 released.

January 11, 2010
Bug fix version 0.65.5 released.

January 5, 2010
Version 0.65 released.

October 30, 2008
Version 0.64 released.

July 21, 2005
Version 0.63 released.

November 23, 2004
Version 0.62 released.

June 22, 2004
The web pages were updated by Hudson Reis. Bernard Giroud, Jim Morcombe, Juan J. Martinez and Scott Ball gave important contributions about the grammar of the web pages. The web pages has several modifications in the source code to pass by the XHTML and CSS validators. Now, our web pages are conformed with the W3C standards!

June, 04, 2004
Hudson Reis presented TinyCOBOL in the 5th edition of International Forum of Free Software, in Porto Alegre, Brazil. See the presentation slides!

September 11, 2003
Version 0.61 released.

June 23, 2003
The web pages were updated by Hudson Reis and David Essex. Broken links were removed. Some HTML was cleaned up. The information on the pages was brought up to date. The FAQ was removed. Hudson Reis started a mirror of the English web pages in the Brazil portuguese language.

June 07, 2003
Rildo Pragana and Hudson Reis presented TinyCOBOL in the 4th edition of International Forum of Free Software in Porto Alegre, Brazil. See the details!

April 22, 2003
Juan J. Martinez wrote a Spanish translation of the Introduction to COBOL and TinyCOBOL. Ronald Arenas created a new FAQ.

February 8, 2003
Version 0.60 released.

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topic Footnotes

Web pages design by David Essex and Hudson Reis

Logo Design by James Richardson in the isle of Man

The term COBOL 85 standard as used by TinyCOBOL refers to the combination of the following standards.
  • ISO 1985: Programming languages - COBOL.
  • ISO 1989-1: Programming languages - Intrinsic Function Module - COBOL.
  • ANSI X3.23-1985: Programming languages - COBOL.
  • ANSI X3.23a-1989: Programming languages - Intrinsic Function Module - COBOL.
  • X/Open XPG3: COBOL programming languages extensions.

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