Re: AW: gnubol: Code repository?

[Matthew Vanecek <mev0003@unt.edu>]

Carsten Siedentop wrote:
> 
> Hi Matthew,
> 
> I'm in the mailing list only a few days before you. And I'm in the same situation, looking for what I could do. If you like, we could do something together. I'm a pretty good COBOL-Programmer (10 years practice) whith C-know-how in a smaller amount. The time I have is limited, because my job and my family takes a lot of my time.
> 
> I have a little practice with embedded sql and ODBC in COBOL-Source. So tell me, what you intend to do and what can I help you.
> 
> Carsten
> 

I'm not real sure, yet.  My first task is to learn to use the tools
(e.g., lex (or flex) and yacc (or bison)).  

Embedded SQL is definitely something that would need to be in the
compiler suite, but probably not in the main compiler itself.  I'm not
sure how parsing it would work--I haven't reached that chapter in the
lex and yacc book yet. ;)  I understand how to write it, of course (but
probably not as well as you), but front-end stuff (writing code) is
completely different, I think, from back-end stuff (parsing/compiling
code).

One thing that I would like to work on myself is sort of a Web
enablement extension.  I don't know if you are familiar with NetExpress
from MicroFocus, but that is one sweet little package.  It would be nice
to have that type of capability (ok, maybe it'll have to be CLI and not
GUI), without having to pay $3,000 for a license.  NetExpress (for those
that don't know) can generate a front-end system for a dbms, with the
code in COBOL, and even can generate the html pages.  When you need to
access it, you go to the /cgi-bin/executable, which opens and parses the
html pages.  The html pages have various tags and stuff in it which the
COBOL replaces with whatever values are needed.  Very sweet package. 
And even more appropriate for some Web-based DP applications than Perl,
IMHO.

Well, anyhow, that's what I'd like to work on.  But I need to learn the
tools, first, which won't happen in earnest until after graduation next
week.

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