In <[email protected]>, on
08/03/2012
at 09:52 AM, Frank Swarbrick <[email protected]> said:
>The program was written in pre-COBOL II (COBOL 85) syntax.
>At that time the REMARKS paragraph valid (I'm guessing as an IBM
>extension),
No.
>and everything following it (until the next valid phrase) was
>treated as, well, remarks (a.k.a. comments).
AFAIK that was part of the original language design from the CODASYL
SRC. It's certainly how COBOL (F) worked back in OS/360.
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