Integrating COBOL with C++

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Hi everyone!

I have built a tool that can be used to export C++ libraries to other languages. I’m wondering if that is something that would be interesting to the COBOL community. The tool could be used to gradually convert parts of COBOL to C++ or to integrate newly written code with legacy systems.

Would it be helpful to seamlessly call C++ from COBOL?

How do you usually integrate with C++? Are there any particularly painful things surrounding this?

Would you or your company pay for something like this?

Tolc has been used successfully in government-related optimization projects as well as in academia. Here is a link to the documentation, and if you want to sign up for future updates, you can do so here.

Would be very interested in what you think!

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Hi,

an http (with support for https) module such as curlpp would be wonderful.

#include <curlpp/cURLpp.hpp>
#include <curlpp/Easy.hpp>

Imagine if we could do something like:
…
01 url pic x(256) value ‘https://my.api.com’ & X’00’.
01 headers.
03 pic (20) value ‘Accept: application/json’ & X’00’.

call “c_curlpp” using by reference url headers returning response

With best regards, Emerson