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  3. July 2002

Re: Subfiles in COBOL

From: Joe Pluta <joepluta@PlutaBrothers.com>
> I will say this:
> the period is the single most frightening punctuation mark I have ever
> met <grin>.  So small, yet so significant.  Not unlike the semicolon in C
> and its derivatives, but maybe even a little harder to spot.
>

yet, unlike C et al., in COBOL (in the procedure division) you hardly
ever *have* to use the period (only at paragraph end), so simply don't
use the period (and when you have to at the end of the paragraph,
put the period on a line by itself), and spare yourself a heap of trouble.

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