Re: cobfd

From: Carol (kgdg_at_helkusa.com)
Date: 07/28/04


Date: Tue, 27 Jul 2004 22:04:56 -0600

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"JerryMouse" <nospam@bisusa.com> wrote in message
news:r7idnZXFdZhEe5vcRVn-uA@giganews.com...
> Carol wrote:
> > hi why can an old, free program like this spit translate the file
> > defs, but nowhere on the planet can a simple program read the file
> > def and the data and just translate the data?
> >
> > would that be a frreeware DOS program that puts you all out of
> > business? scratch scratch
>
> No, it's because never in the 40+ years of COBOL development, not in the
> billions of lines of COBOL code that's been written, and nowhere in the
> language's history or use has there ever been a request or need for such a
> foolish thing.
>
>
>



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