Yet another OpenCOBOL spam with only a little bit of rat 'n it

[btiffin]

Old guy pestering the board again.

Recent developments in OpenCOBOL: http://opencobol.org http://add1tocobol.com

• in source ReST documentation utility
  
• xref
  
• SUBSTITUTE intrinsic function
  
• workable gui with GTK+
  
• working browser windows with gtkhtml
  
• What could be an alternative to Blue Spruce IBM is in the brainswirl
  
• start of a printing support project (could use hands and snippets of know how on this one)
  
• a growing pile of examples
  
• hints of libguile linkage
  
• expanded TikiWiki
  
• svn repository
  
• docs and more docs
  
• things and more things
  

And a note to those that may not know; COBOL is a complete and venerable programming environment. OpenCOBOL is a lot of serious fun and it's open source, open to new developers, open for business.

COBOL does not get a lot of press, due to its innate vertical (one of one) versus horizontal (one sold many many times) application development nature and use by most large companies, all with secrets to keep. Don't let the lack of internet chatter trick you into thinking that COBOL is not on the radar of almost all of the world's medium and large IT shops.

OpenCOBOL opens the door to all of the small shops now, and I pester here every month or so to give everyone a chance to check it out, maybe help build it up or perhaps use it with a mind toward commercial endeavours.

Cheers
Edit; typos