Re: Question on Cobol (Unix) file layouts...

[Howard Weatherly <hweatherly@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Yup! David, you are correct, Jon and I have already discussed the fact
that ten folks could read the same thing and arive at ten different
interpretations, thanks for pointing this out.

david.kahn@gbwsh.mail.abb.com wrote:
> 
> Howard Weatherly <hweatherly@dlis.dla.mil> wrote:
> 
> >I must disagree with you on this, COBOL most certainly
> >has a USAGE clause and has since it's inception.
> 
> Howard,
> 
> If you re-read Jon's reply carefully I think you'll agree he could only
> have meant that the _code_sample_ did not have a USAGE clause, and
> therefore the data items were implicity USAGE DISPLAY. The answer was 100%
> correct. I think it's safe to assume that Jon is reasonably familiar with
> COBOL's usage of USAGE.
> 
> His views on the brevity of COBOL vs. RPG _are_ a little weird, however.
> :-)
> 
> Dave Kahn, ABB Steward Ltd.
> 
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