Dennis Lee Bieber <wlfr...@ix.netcom.com> wrote: > > While I wouldn't want to write an FFT in COBOL, one can't deny that >laying out fixed width reports and moving blocks of decimal data between >record layouts is quite easy in COBOL.
Absolutely. I've always thought the Data Section in COBOL was conceptually ahead of its time. It makes you THINK about your data structures more than, say "struct" in C. -- Tim Roberts, t...@probo.com Providenza & Boekelheide, Inc. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
