COBOL

Implementations:

IDE:

Open COBOL IDE

Reading

Articles

"Learning COBOL: A Journey for the Modern Programmer"
"The Beauty of COBOL"
"Mastering the COBOL Programming Language" (Really more a collection of links to other COBOL-related stuff)

Books

"Beginning COBOL for Programmers"
COBOL Programming Fundamental (PDF)
Enterprise COBOL for z/OS documentation library
ILE COBOL Programmer's Guide (PDF)
Micro Focus: OO Programming with Object COBOL for UNIX (1999) - MERANT International Ltd. (HTML)
OpenCOBOL 1.1 - Programmer's Guide (PDF)

Projects

COBOL Streamhouse (Archived April 2025)
Cobaul - toolchain used to support COBOL in CloudFlare workers

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Last modified 17 February 2026