The pointer addition to Cobol, you use ver effectively. I have queried the CVT ...for various fields successfully.
Scott ford www.identityforge.com Tell me and I'll forget; show me and I may remember; involve me and I'll understand. - Chinese Proverb On Feb 17, 2013, at 2:45 PM, John Gilmore <[email protected]> wrote: > Thomas Berg's notion that COBOL is hard to obfuscate is less true than > it once was. > > REDEFINES has always had its obfuscatory uses; but the availability of > pointers now makes data-type punning easy in a language that has no > tradition of its appropriate, in-good-taste use. > > Let me repeat myself. COBOL is not a defensible language, but that is > not important. COBOL is, massively; and all those millions of lines > of COBOL source must be dealt with. They cannot be wished away, and > they cannot be replaced at all readily in the short term. They can > perhaps be refurbished in ways that do not aggravate the problems > their existence poses. > > John Gilmore, Ashland, MA 01721 - USA > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
