On Sat, Dec 12, 2015, Fred Cisin wrote: > you could feed the cards through an INTERPRETER, which printed the card > content on the card. [snip] > For many years, I kept around a plug-board labelled "COBOL INTERPRETER", > just to prove that a COBOL interpreter was possible :-)
Are you using "interpreter" in two senses here, or just one? That is to say, I'm not sure if you're saying the "COBOL interpreter" was just a program that printed COBOL source on a punched card, or if you mean it actually ran the program. -- Eric Christopherson