Implementations:

• Native: GNU-COBOL
• JVM: Heirloom Elastic COBOL
• JVM: Veryant isCOBOL Evolve
• JVM/CLR: MicroFocus Visual COBOL
• CLR: Otterkit (Source)

IDE:

• Open COBOL IDE

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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)

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