Re: Setting A Hex Value in COBOL

On Thu, 31 May 2007 15:57:19 +0000 (UTC), docdwarf@xxxxxxxxx () wrote:

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.

Sounds rather similar, Mr Brazee... and just think, about half of 1980 is
more than twenty-seven years ago, give or take a bit.

How did that happen? Isn't twenty-seven years a significant amount
of time? But it seems so recent...
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