exercism / exercism/gnucobol

How to contribute and name change suggestion.

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Description

Hi, I'd like to contribute to this track on exercism, and I'd also like to suggest a name change from gnuCOBOL to just COBOL.

Reason for the name change is that gnuCOBOL is not a language, it's a compiler that can understand various dialects of COBOL. It would be like having separate tracks for GCC and Clang for the C language or separate tracks for each browser for Javascript.

I have some experience with COBOL and have access to the latest 202x draft standard.

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Start by reviewing the track repository and the Exercism naming context to determine whether the proposed gnuCOBOL-to-COBOL rename is in scope. Done requires a maintainer decision on the name and an agreed scope for any resulting track changes; the issue mentions no files or tests to run.

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