Cobol remains one of the most widely-used programming languages in Japan, and the G-Micro Group collaborating on the development of a family of microprocessors optimised for the Tron operating system has turned to the Ryan McFarland Corp arm of Liant Software Corp, Framingham, Massachusetts for its needs. The G-Micro Group – Fujitsu Ltd, Hita chi Ltd and Mitsubishi El ectric Corp – has signed for Ryan McFarland’s Fusion Cobol development system. Fusion Cobol will enable enable end users to develop hardware-independent Unix applications for the G-Mi cro microprocessors. The pact also covers the Code Watch source-level debugg ing tool. The Tron group is hedging its bets by also supporting Unix on G-Micro.
