Re: Cobol Subprocedures, Prototype definitions and interfaces, etc.

[Jon Paris <jon.paris@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hey - if you're generating it it doesn't matter how easy the code is  
for anybody to read and if you have to gen unwanted return variables  
who cares!

In defence of the COBOL team, it is really hard to introduce this kind  
of feature (subprocs or prototypes for example) because you a) Have to  
get permission from the internal IBM COBOL council and b) Have to  
ensure that nothing you do will leave you with a problem in  
implementing future ANSI standards.

It took us over 12 months of work and research to get agreement to  
adding the LIKE keyword to COBOL!


Jon Paris

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On Aug 18, 2010, at 7:26 PM, steelville wrote:

> Geez. And they wanted everybody to do EGL and generate Cobol?! Wow.  
> Not
> that I should have been surprised, though.