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> I resemble being called "Extinct",
> under any title. There's still a
> place for us"Dinos" who prize nice tight code that
> accomplishes the
> required purpose. :-)
>
> Farley, Peter x23353 wrote:
>
> >>----
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OK I mis-spoke the idea I was trying to get across was that fewer and fewer
people know assembler and that its a shame that you need to know it to get pass
the cobol issue. I do not know if C++ would do it or for that matter any other
language that is callable with COBOL. It is just a shame that you have to know
any other language just to do simple table lookups. COBOL was meant to be a
reasonably simple language (for the masses if you must).
COBOL if it remains static like it has for many years will need to be replaced
if it cannot do simple large table lookups. Now if there was some way a service
was designed for say LE to create large tables and then look items up that
would be acceptable (I would think). But as one other mentioned there are other
items that need large amounts of tables as well.
Why not just offer it.
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