In <[email protected]>, on 06/17/2012
at 12:06 AM, Tom Ross <[email protected]> said:
>The issue of COBOL compiler messages was discussed here, and most
>agreed it would not be that helpful, since it would mostly say
>'please see the COBOL Language Reference Manual'.
Those calling for a messages manual were asking IBM for a real manual,
not for IBM to just go through the motions. The text 'please see the
COBOL Language Reference Manual' is not a real explanation, any more
than '/* this is a comment */' is a real comment.
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