On Fri, Feb 3, 2023 at 9:00 AM zMan <zedgarhoo...@gmail.com> wrote: > O my. > > I was on a call with a bunch of customers a few years ago. One of them was > having a very basic problem with a COBOL program calling our product. I > explained that they needed to put the name of <something> into a variable > that gets passed as the first parameter. Silence, then..."What's a > variable?" > > COBOL, and its programmers, use the term "data name", almost exclusively, instead of the term "variables". Why? Because "data name" includes file definitions, structures, 77 levels, 88 levels, etc., none of which are variables.
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