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...External commands supported include alert, filepanel, figlet, hdialog, yabdialog, shanty, tput. umenu and smenu. In the pipeline is support for yoshi, and hey. You are not going to write an award-winning word processor in basku. You probably could write a text editor with it, if it ran inside Terminal, but yab would probably still be better for that. Basku occupies a place in-between scripting and fully-fledged application programming. It is for the creation of installers, configuration utilities, front-ends and those little "glue" applications that you really need, but that are unlikely to be meaningful to anyone else.

One of the hardest things to do when coding with COBOL is translating a screen design into code. The process may take hours, not to say days. In my old BLIS-COBOL, COBOL 74 and COBOL 80 /85 days (and those last 2 had the SCREEN SECTION which helped a lot !), I recall spending a significant amount of time dedicated to that activity. Time that could be used for more productive activities like coding and resolving bugs, for instance. Having said that, I developed a Screen Editor (similar to a...