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<CAE1XxDEoPLRZNdi_yt1E32k8s29YBH8oucHPhu2Vw9P0YV=2...@mail.gmail.com>,
on 10/20/2012
at 09:19 AM, John Gilmore <[email protected]> said:
>COBOL's 88-level machinery is an artefact of lacunæ elsewhere. In
>particular, boolean variables,
A variable definition in COBOL can be followed by more than two level
88 declarations; they are closer to status variables in JOVIAL than
they are to boolean variables.
--
Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz, SysProg and JOAT
Atid/2 <http://patriot.net/~shmuel>
We don't care. We don't have to care, we're Congress.
(S877: The Shut up and Eat Your spam act of 2003)
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