Re: COBOL and Data Areas -- MIDRANGE-L

Subject: Re: COBOL and Data Areas
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 >> As you well know, COBOL is a truly portable language.  *NOT!!

Um - Al - it's the fact that it doesn't have many platform specific
extensions that _makes_ COBOL portable!

COBOL/400 is less portable than many dialects _because_ it has so many
platform specific extensions.

PS.  In answer to the original question COBOL does support data areas and
has done so since V3r7.

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