Re: Setting A Hex Value in COBOL
- From: Howard Brazee <howard@xxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 31 May 2007 09:46:46 -0600
On Thu, 31 May 2007 00:22:16 +0000 (UTC), docdwarf@xxxxxxxxx () wrote:
This sounds like something back from Ye Oldene Dayse... a programmer is
allowed two (or more or less) compiles per day because those CPU cycles
cost big money and all that. What I'm hearing here is that you get some
code, put your mods in, submit a request to the DBA to compile, get a 12
back because you fat-fingered CH-NL into CH0NL, change the '0' to a '-',
submit a request to a DBA to compile, get a 12 back because you typo'd
PERFORM into PERFROM, change the code, submit a request...
In 1980 I worked in a shop that had everybody run their CoBOL programs
through a syntax checker. We reviewed the output before
re-submitting the programs to the compiler.
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