See the Wiki for most of the documentation.
(Tá leagan Gaeilge den cáipéis seo ar fáil.)
This is a patched version of Jos Visser's OpenComal 0.2.7 (unstable branch).
The previous maintainer, pietsch https://github.com/pietsch, fixed bugs so that OpenComal could run on then-current versions of Linux.
I took over the project because I am interested in practical methods for improving the quality of old projects (similar to the ntpsec project, although I am still some way behind them). OpenComal is a nice size to run experiments on.
One of the nice things about the COMAL language itself is that it has a vendor-neutral standard with several implementions. Lately I've also been trying to bring OpenComal closer to compliance with those standards:
One regression is that I removed support for platforms that I don't
build and test, MS-DOS and Win32.
I am no longer interested in these systems, or pull requests for them.
Just in case anyone wanted to fork,
the last version containing the needed files is tagged as last_dos_w32_version.
I don't know. Emails sent to his address no longer seem to be read. Legally there should not be any problem because OpenComal is licensed under the GPL.
Never mind, just type anything, and it will appear. Or hit the backspace key first (kudos to Harald Arnesen for this hint).
I'm reluctant to do this, unless the feature is in one of the above standards. I am interested in bug reports and pull requests though. I think OpenCOMAL definitely has a niche in retrocomputing and may possibly have one in education, e.g. for children, teenagers, or other domain experts that don't have time to learn Computer Science.
- Børge R. Christensen's COMAL Reference Guide (for COMAL 0.14 on the C-64)
- Wikipedia has useful COMAL entries in German, English, and Polish.