Deutsche Welle news article on Raspberry Pi - "Raspberry Pi and the new computer science kids"

nah. all there will BE to eat will be desert.

-- Ineptocracy

(in-ep-toc?-ra-cy) ? a system of government where the least capable to lead are elected by the least capable of producing, and where the members of society least likely to sustain themselves or succeed, are rewarded with goods and services paid for by the confiscated wealth of a diminishing number of producers.

Using my mjd_date program, and also my Web js-date8.htm#JGDC, I now get, from Gregorian 24867-03-24, CMJD 8403627 = Julian 24866/09/21 Thu, and I have alas forgotten how I got the above October date.

I still use the technique today. The CLASSLIB library (which provides OOP extensions to BBC BASIC for Windows) works by creating tokenised BASIC code 'on the fly' which it then writes into memory and later executes. All hidden from the user, of course, but that's what happens under the hood.

Richard.

Bit late to this thread and I find my first contribution to the new froup is OT in the wider sense, but if you should actually want a current COBOL to play with, there's Visual COBOL for Eclipse and Visual COBOL for .NET personal edition from Microfocus:

Still using it after 35+ years, now generating HTML with it (you could do that with MF COBOL some years ago) so I can move the system I work on forwards from green screen.

trial/vcpe-trial.aspx

Pity that website won't work properly with Firefox 21.0 (the tabs don't do anything so I can't see the detailed specs to work out what their current COBOL flavour is capable of. OTOH, although I spent a lot of time using ICL 1900 and 2900 COBOL plus a bit on DEC, Tandem and Microfocus versions I'm not sure I want to go there again - Java can do everything COBOL could and with less typing.

I never did that, but I don't see why not. Any language that can output ASCII or UTF-8 text to stdout can do that, though there may be an advantage in front-ending the COBOL program with Apache.