On Mon, 13 Mar 2017 10:23:12 -0500, John McKown <[email protected]> wrote:
>I took a quick look at XPLINK. And you're right, that's a whole 'nother >kettle of fish. I basically understand the why, as explained in the LE >manuals. But why COBOL decided to go with the same, other than >inter-operation with C, is beyond my tiny (and shrinking) mind. Even with >nested COBOL programs, I don't see COBOL programmers writing "tons" of >"itty bitty" COBOL programs. But C/C++ programs do that a lot, especially >C++ programmers. I agree. I don't understand why they don't use F4SA/F5SA, as documented in the Assembler Services Guide. I hope that they reconsider. -- Tom Marchant ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
