Re: "Goto statement considered superfluous" (was: If you were inventing C)
From: Chuck Stevens (charles.stevens_at_unisys.com)
Date: 09/24/04
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Date: Thu, 23 Sep 2004 16:10:08 -0700
"Richard" <riplin@Azonic.co.nz> wrote in message
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> It certainly would have hurt it unless they also provided COMPUTE
> (which didn't arrive until '74).
No, I don't think that's quite right. COMPUTE is in both the '68 COBOL
manuals I have lying around, not marked as an extension, it's in the
COBOL-60 manual I've got, and it's not listed as an "innovation" in the JoD
series in either of the standards that contain the History of COBOL section.
I think what's new in '74 is *multiple-destination* COMPUTE ("the identifier
series": ANSI X3.23-1974 page XIV-20, Substantive Changes item 44).
Multiple-destination ADD GIVING, DIVIDE GIVING, DIVIDE INTO (no GIVING),
MULTIPLY BY (no GIVING), MULTIPLY GIVING, and SUBTRACT GIVING also appear to
have been added in '74.
-Chuck Stevens
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