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ACAS

ACAS, the Applewood Computers Accounting System, is written in COBOL and built with GnuCOBOL. It includes sales, purchase and nominal ledgers and stock-control functionality. The project publishes source and user documentation on…

Ada Web Server

Ada Web Server, or AWS, is an Ada framework for embedding HTTP services in applications. Its documentation covers request handling, higher-level services and integration with GNAT. AdaCore marks the product deprecated, with no new…

Alire

Alire provides the alr command-line tool and a catalog of Ada and SPARK libraries. It helps create projects, resolve dependencies and build programs with a selected toolchain. Start with the getting-started guide and a small Ada…

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Julia ·

This Month in Julia World (October 2026)

Julia Blog

A community roundup of Julia development, including work on loading and compilation latency, parsing, package resolution and installation size. The article links to implementation discussions and pull requests, making it a useful map for…

Fortran ·

Legacy Code Confessions

Fortran-lang News

The Fortran community is collecting recognisable patterns that make established code difficult to understand, test and maintain, together with concrete alternatives. The article explains what makes a useful example and how to contribute…

APL ·

Making the IDE My Own – Part 2 (Mostly Windows)

Dyalog Blog

Adám Brudzewsky shows how he customises the Dyalog development environment, covering fonts, zoom controls and keyboard behaviour with small APL functions. This is practical material for people already using the IDE, particularly on…

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