Yep.

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Post #257,097

by static

5/29/06 10:59:06 PM

Yep.

Not pleasant. Experienced COBOL programmers usually develop coding habits to make it easier to not make that mistake. :-)

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Post #257,101

by imric

5/29/06 11:04:47 PM

Unfortunately

When I was doing it, there were a lot more inexperienced programmers doing COBOL.

Damn I'm old.

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Post #257,134

by Meerkat

5/30/06 9:00:53 AM

Many times, during my COBOL days,

I would have lots of debug code to catch the dreaded 'fallthrough' due to misplaced .'s.
The amount of times I had programs that would print (sorry, DISPLAY...) "THIS LINE OF CODE CAN'T POSSIBLY EXECUTE"...

What the heck - I still like the fact that one lump of data can be overlaid by different PICTUREs.

Two out of three people wonder where the other one is.

Good COBOL conversation - (broomberg) - (7) - May 29, 2006, 07:13:53 PM EDT

Thanks for reminding me just WHY - (imric) - May 29, 2006, 07:44:00 PM EDT

That was not nice. - (static) - (4) - May 29, 2006, 10:53:26 PM EDT

Damn, man. - (imric) - (3) - May 29, 2006, 10:55:48 PM EDT

Yep. - (static) - (2) - May 29, 2006, 10:59:06 PM EDT

Unfortunately - (imric) - (1) - May 29, 2006, 11:04:47 PM EDT

Many times, during my COBOL days, - (Meerkat) - May 30, 2006, 09:00:53 AM EDT

Are you telling me COBOL still doesn't have a stack? -NT - (warmachine) - May 30, 2006, 12:14:11 PM EDT

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