Our shop had one agency still running report writer reports using the
free built in version (78?).

On Tue, Jun 9, 2020 at 3:47 PM Seymour J Metz <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> Ultimately it's a management issue common to all languages: if programmers 
> are not required to document and to keep documentation up to date, or, worse, 
> are prohibited from "wasting time" doing so, there will be downstream 
> consequences. In the case of COBOL there is also the pernicious myth that it 
> is self documenting - no language is.
>
> BTW, is there any shop still using CODASYL COBOL?
>
>
> --
> Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz
> http://mason.gmu.edu/~smetz3
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