It is very difficult to debug an abend in a Cobol program unless you can at least read the generated assembler. Of course, these days, there are programs that will do it for you.
-- Tom Marchant On Sun, 5 Feb 2023 18:27:57 -0500, Tony Thigpen <t...@vse2pdf.com> wrote: >Ok, so exactly why is that a problem? > >Tony Thigpen > >Bob Bridges wrote on 2/3/23 13:09: >> It is a little distressing, though (at least to me), to observe how many >> "programmers" never ~have~ seen anything but COBOL. >> >> --- >> Bob Bridges, robhbrid...@gmail.com, cell 336 382-7313 >> >> /* How agitated I am when I am in the garden, and how happy I am to be so >> agitated. Nothing works just the way I thought it would, nothing looks just >> the way I had imagined it, and when sometimes it does look like what I had >> imagined (and this, thank God, is rare) I am startled that my imagination is >> so ordinary. -Jamaica Kincaid, _My Garden Book_ */ >> >> >> -----Original Message----- >> From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List <IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU> On Behalf Of >> zMan >> Sent: Friday, February 3, 2023 10:50 >> >> And unless COBOL is the only programming language you've ever seen, it seems >> unlikely that you wouldn't know what a variable is. >> >> ---------------------------------------------------------------------- >> For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, >> send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN > >---------------------------------------------------------------------- >For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, >send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
