Re: COBOL's Influence on C

On Mon, 12 Nov 2007 10:19:38 -0500, "Rick Smith" <ricksmith@xxxxxxx> wrote:

Modern BASICs also use conditions in the SELECT CASE
statement and may have been influenced by COBOL. <g>

Speaking of modern BASICs ...

GOSUB, which is the same as Cobol's out of line PERFORM, has been depreciated by many/most
compilers and dropped from VB.NET. It was replaced by SUB, which is a local function
call. In my opinion, Cobol should have done the same.
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