Re: Cobol vs RPG vs Java vs C vs MI.

[Bob Larkin <blarkin@xxxxxx>]

I writeCOBOL programs from scratch. It's EASY.  You just copy one that's already
there, change the the files,..... <vbg>

You make a good point. Although there seems to be a lot of extraneous stuff in a
COBOL program, nost of it is cloned from other programs, with very little 
changed.
And the stuff that is changed is directly after a lable describing what you need
to change, ie. "Program Name".

Bob


Terry Grider wrote:

> Something else to consider is the fact that very few if any of us write code
> from scratch.  You usually start with a skeleton or model program, change the
> file section if needed, and code the procedure division.
>
> --
> Terry Grider
> tgrider@arkansas.net
>
> "R. Bruce Hoffman, Jr." wrote:

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