Not really COBOL related (yet).

IPython release 0.13 is one nifty shell. Command line, Qt, and collaborative notebook web interfaces.

I'm keen to post this as 0.13 works in Opera 12. Opera is my browser of choice, and the IPython team have created an awesome development environment (in my humble).

I'm hot on the trail to see if IPy's parallel computing engine can't replace our GNU/Linux fleet management scripts.

Yayy for shiny new toys.

This may be the hummph needed to get motivated to complete an embedded Python engine for OpenCOBOL. Previous attempts at embedding Python (aside from the super easy high level 'execute scripts for side effect') seemed like too much work (for the expected gains) and the itch stopped there. Getting itchy again.

See http://ipython.org/ and for some fanboy screenshots: http://my.opera.com/btiffin/blog/2012/07/06/ipython-0-13

Cheers,
Brian