Technical instructions for building the Falcon programming language for use on a non root privileged hosted shell access account. Falcon CGI and Nest with AJAX awaits. …
Just a quote this time
Almost at 1.0 for the OpenCOBOL FAQ
Cheering on Falcon
I wrote up a sample that allows embedding Falcon into OpenCOBOL a while back and what follows is a little more cheer leading …
On GNU Build tools
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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Cheering on Vala/Genie
Vala 0.13 was posted on the 17th. Builds on my Fedora 14 with a few warnings, failed 2 tests. I trusted it and sudo make installed. …
Getting a process core dump with OpenCOBOL
Below is a copy of a post to the forum on http://opencobol.org. If you ever need to analyze a crashing OpenCOBOL (or any, for that matter) program, GNU/Linux may be able to help with a core dump. …
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