>
>
> On Sat, 29 Nov 2014, Harold Hallikainen wrote:
>
>> The "executable documentation" is an excellent description of COBOL. I
>> remember statements like:
>>
>> MULTIPLY A BY B GIVING C
>>
>> I think they later added this form:
>>
>> EXECUTE C=3DA*B
>
> Sorry, don't know anything about COBOL (but you might want to look up the
> COMPUTE statement ;-))
>

Oops! That probably WAS compute! Too long ago (or maybe not long enough
when it comes to COBOL). I suspect there are STILL a lot of COBOL
applications running out there.

Thanks!

Harold


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