Re: PL/I Visibility.

[Jon Paris <paris@xxxxxxxxxx>]

>>  You think that's fun?  There's an example in the OfficeVision manual
that's written in COBOL.  There's a bit of text that says something
like, "Yeah, we know COBOL can't handle hex values, so we wrapped a CL
around the program to create the values and pass them in.  And we did
it in COBOL just to be able to say we did it."  <<

What's most interesting about this is that COBOL can handle hex values just as
easily as RPG can, and even in early versions that did not support hex
directly, it was a trivial task to code them.

The OV example simply proves that the people who wrote the example didn't
really know COBOL either!



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