The beauty of use but steep technical knowledge base that is the GNU Autotool chain and its influence on OpenCOBOL. …
More playing with Guile and bf
OpenCOBOL embedding Guile, evaluating bf, and displaying DERP. In only 38 lines of COBOL. …
Fun with GNU Guile and extending OpenCOBOL
It really is pretty neat, COBOL. So is the C Application Binary Interface on a GNU/Linux system. OpenCOBOL mixes these together creating a synergy of seemingly infinite potential.
Solid fiscal, numerical accuracies surrounding COBOL, the vastness of open source C, and OpenCOBOL's use of that vastness. …
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Conditional CALL during OpenCOBOL development
I write a fair number of experimental OpenCOBOL programs. Not for production use, but for proof of concepts and tutorials.
My coding style is still evolving, and there are always new discoveries that make things easier.
CALL "function" ON EXCEPTION CONTINUE …
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