Whatever happened to everyone talking about structured COBOL code. I usually perform paragraph- name thru paragraph- name exit. I but agree flow logic in COBOL need revision. Especially, when you in the middle of the perform. Using 'continue' to good, but sometimes deadlines force you to write not the way you want too
Scott Ford Senior Systems Engineer www.identityforge.com On Apr 17, 2012, at 9:12 AM, Jeff Holst <[email protected]> wrote: > Without the GO TO, Grace Hopper might have been forever stuck in Japan. > > Many years ago, I was at an ACM meeting where Grace Hopper was a speaker. One > of the stories she told was of a visit to a data center in Japan. Somehow, > she was left there without an interpretter. The folks at the data center > spoke no English and she spoke no Japanese. Fortunately, the programmers knew > COBOL. And while COBOL was designed so that the english commands could be > easily translated into other languages (in most languages, the verb in a > command is the first thing in the sentence), this is almost never done. Her > solution was simple. She poiinted at herself, then said GO TO and the name of > the hotel. This was enoungh so that the programmers were able to get her to > the hotel. > > Jeff Holst > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > 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
