>>If I remember rightly Pascal does bounds checking. Pascal was one of the=20 >>languages I did at college - and the highest-level one. A bit of a shock=20 >>to me to discover - in an IBM Systems Engineer training homework=20 >>assignment - that COBOL didn't. (This was in 1986.) The result was me=20
>What about SSRANGE? Wasn't there an equivalent for FCOBOL as well as=20 >VS/COBOL? There was SSRANGE available in 1986, but in VS COBOL II Release 1, which was not quite ready for prime-time. VS COBOL II Release 3 was the first VS COBOL II that gained wide acceptance and it shipped in 1988. In 1986 most people were still using OS/VS COBOL, which had no help for bounds checking on subscripts. Cheers, TomR >> COBOL is the Language of the Future! << ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
