Add
an random amount field [0.01-100.99] to my Julia program that
generates real “looking” customer data. I did this so I
could practice numeric calculations in GnuCOBOL.
Wrote
GnuCOBOL program that uses the COBOL SORT output to printer, with a
heading and final total for a amount field in the input.
Greenbar program to Python 3
Modify
my Python 2 greenbar program to Python 3, specifically to print
GnuCOBOL programs or output, for that nostalgic IBM look.
Here’s
a very simple GnuCOBOL
example.
GnuCOBOL
Another
more advanced GnuCOBOL program that uses the COBOL SORT. Pretty
nice COBOL!
Sort was so fast on my first test of 5000 records,
that I reran on 50,000 records. Still literally ran in the blink of
an eye. So I timed it.
bill@billb-MS-7B79
~/Mystuff/COBOL/progs $ time ./sort01 [GnuCOBOL
program]
real 0m0.107s
user
0m0.064s
sys
0m0.040s
bill@billb-MS-7B79 ~/Mystuff/COBOL/progs $
Input
file (sample) looks like…
4016772724115827
4BFDestiny Bryanna
Hamende
1984-10-118941 E 61 Dr
East Berlin
PA17316
4866213809365608 4CFAlicia
Kendal
Chabala
2000-04-229268 W 91 Way
Minonk
IL61760
4447208205483581 2DMBrayden
Zayne
Muhammad
1991-09-26231 S 75 St
Sulphur
LA70664
4831920901606091 5EMNicholas
Tony
Hochevar
1972-05-197275 NW 179 Av
Pacolet
SC29372
4866500665561571 1HFAshlyn
Cynthia Mccaughan
1969-05-306799 N 171 St
Questa
NM87556
Sorted (last name, first name) output file
(sample) looks like…
Aaberg
Kyler
1926-11-13
Aagaard
Jalen
2000-06-21
Aagesen
Keaton
1951-10-08
Aakhus
Alejandro
1944-01-11
Aalbers
Julius
1954-04-20
GnuCOBOL
Decided to kick the tires of GnuCOBOL, pushing it a little harder.
Wrote a little more advanced GnuCOBOL simple array program that Uses: REDEFINES, OCCURS, VARYING.
I have previously wrote a few programs to read/write variable and fixed length records.
Variable length records are pretty much regular ascii files (perhaps delimited with a comma) with lines terminated with a line feed on linux.
Julia/X-Plane scenery organizer
More work on my
Julia X-Plane scenery organizer. Created a SQLite ICAO airport
database [54,000+ records] from a csv file I found on github. The
Julia SQLite handeling has changed since my last use, it now also
requires dataframes! See 10/12/2018 where I talked about
dataframes.
Because X-Plane has no requirements on
scenery file, file names, it seems, at best an organizer can only
help organize a file. If some developer creates a library and decides
to name it bird then how can an organizer intelligently know it’s a
library? If Laminar would simply require file names to follow a
standard it would be much easier. At any rate it was a good Julia
exercise.
Reran my Julia program, that used SQLite to create real “looking” customer data. Huge SQLite improvement in speed still a little slow on initialization. But once in main loop my gut feel is it’s now faster than Python. Contrast that to what I said on 09/18/2018.
Julia 1.1.0/MS VS Code
Well Julia 1.1.0
came out on 01/22 and good news…it now can execute Julia code
within the very cool MS VS Code editor!
Started writing X-Plane
11 “scenery_packs.ini” ordering program. There is an
X-Organizer MS-Windows only program that does this. Wow I already
forgot so much basic Julia syntax. And my notes were severely lacking
basic “if” statement details.
Embarassing…I
don’t even want to admit how long I spent trying to figure out what
was wrong with the following line…
If ln[1:13] !=
“SCENERY_PACK “
which caused this error…
‘ERROR:
LoadError: syntax: extra token “ln” after end of
expression’
Long story short…’If’ should be
lowercase!!!!
Finished downloading X-Plane 11
Finally finished downloading X-Plane 11 from Steam, Did a couple GB each day. First thing I did was backup. I had X-Plane 10 but didn’t do too much with it because I was always fighting the controls, even after adjusting trim (aileron & rudder). I’d usually use auto-pilot and make small adjustments from there to fly from point A to B. Immediately I found X-Plane 11 much easier to control.
X-Plane 11
Recently bought X-Plane 11 to replace X-Plane 10. But even after backing up X-Plane 10 and deleting it, plus 10GB to start with…I don’t have enough room. It say’s it takes >90GB.
DOS/VS under VM
A return to mainframe emulation using hercules running in Linux. I have four 3270 terminal’s come up positioned this way with a title bar describing the guest I run there, OPERATOR [starts in the 1st screen automatically], MAINT, DOS1 & DOS2. As you can see I am running 2 DOS guests [DOS1 ran a COBOL compile. DOS2 ran a simple LSERV] and I have a fullscreen edit in MAINT’s account of a VM directory. I can submit DOS jobs to either DOS, from MAINT. Or I can submit the jobs directly from Linux [thus taking advantage of superior editors] if I want.
Python 3
Thanks to Julia I finally decided to dive into Python 3. With many old libraries converted to Python 3 and with Python 2’s impending demise…it’s time.
Note: In the passing couple weeks since this date I’ve written Python 3 programs using PIL, Beautiful Soup and Pandas. I got into Pandas because I kept reading about data frames in Julia and I wanted to learn about the concept. At 1st it sounded intimidating, until I learned it’s simply a way of looking at data like a spreadsheet…rows and columns.