I don't know enough COBOL to contribute much more on that score. But I can
now recall some of the COBOL programmer's words, "ALTER GOTO is the only
sensible support for structured programming" which sounds like an eccentric
view, if not actually mad :-)
He was clearly good at his job, though, and
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I seem to remember that most of the perceived weaknesses in COBOL were
addressed a long time ago.
But some old tales just won't die. Back when JSP meant Jackson Structured,
I remember being told that PL/I supported selection directly wi
On Sat, 1 Apr 2023 11:30:24 +0100, Rupert Reynolds wrote:
>...
>while in COBOL people were using ALTER with GOTO (oof!).
>
???
But didn't they need a CASE/SELECT to choose which ALTER?
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I seem to remember that most of the perceived weaknesses in COBOL were
addressed a long time ago.
But some old tales just won't die. Back when JSP meant Jackson Structured,
I remember being told that PL/I supported selection directly with 'SELECT',
while in COBOL people were using ALTER with GOTO
r IF ELSE/IF ELSE/IF ELSE.
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In the CASE of Software AG&
In the CASE of Software AG's language, Natural, it is WHEN ANY and WHEN NONE.
ANY would execute after the code of the successful WHEN condition. Once in a
while, I would wish it would execute before rather than after.
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