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Just added a pre-alpha cut of FUNCTION LUA to GnuCOBOL https://sourceforge.net/p/open-cobol/discussion/contrib/thread/a50bf887/
Still leaning toward REXX as a more appropriate pairing for in application COBOL scripting, but the Lua syntax may appeal to some.
It'll be committed to the SVN source tree for the gnu-cobol-builtin-script branch shortly.
So far out of REXX, Python, Lua and JVM, I'm recommending REXX and JVM as the GO TO tools.
Frink loaded via FUNCTION JVM is quite the thing. The Frink programming environment keeps track of units of measure. Very handy. And comes with syntax for automatic web based translations and real time currency information.
Ups the game a little. The .class file to expose Frink in the GnuCOBOL JVM was about 28 lines of Java, and a simple classpath setting for frink.jar. One line of COBOL can do a lot.
Tcl/Tk work has started, and after that Guile, then the whole thing settles down and hopefully these make their way into trunk shortly thereafter.
Have good, make well.

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In article <[email protected]>,
<[email protected]> wrote:

[snip to sentence-fragment]

Tcl/Tk work has started...

Now there's a double-barreled blast from the past... a
couple-or-three-or-so years back there was a company, Ars Digita, that was going to Revolutionise the InterNet by doing... something.

They'd hire programmers only if the programmers could pass their test,
which looked like the final exam of a Tcl/Tk 101 course.

(during a telephone interview I asked 'instead of basing a hiring decision
on knowledge of a particular wouldn't hiring based on the ability to think
be more Revolutionary?'...

... never heard back from them, either)

DD

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On Sunday, June 25, 2017 at 8:18:01 AM UTC-4, [email protected] wrote:

In article <[email protected]>,
<[email protected]> wrote:

[snip to sentence-fragment]

Tcl/Tk work has started...

Now there's a double-barreled blast from the past... a
couple-or-three-or-so years back there was a company, Ars Digita, that was going to Revolutionise the InterNet by doing... something.

They'd hire programmers only if the programmers could pass their test,
which looked like the final exam of a Tcl/Tk 101 course.

(during a telephone interview I asked 'instead of basing a hiring decision on knowledge of a particular wouldn't hiring based on the ability to think be more Revolutionary?'...

... never heard back from them, either)

DD

:-)
I was recently exploring OpenACS as an option for replacing the GnuCOBOL SourceForge project space. Dumbfounded by the AOLServer dependency, (that blast from the past conjured up nothing but images of unwanted piles of CDs and
then a pining nostalgia for the good old CompuServe days and acoustic couplers).
Who needs more than 300 symbols a second? 300, every second, s'like a lot. Cheers

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