I mentioned this thread to a friend who used to manage a COBOL shop where my spouse worked. He made the comment below which my spouse interpreted to me because I did not understand the implications. Those of you familiar with the (ancient or recent?) COBOL environment may appreciate this forwarded material.
"More on the Cobol need – patching of production programs was a common practice and then intending to update the source, recompile it later and put it into the active object library and test it didn’t always get done – this is yet another challenge for an incoming Cobol or any other commercial application programmer to deal with. As one of the Beach Boys songs start out – Fun, fun, fun ..." -- (B=) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm
