Re: Question on Cobol (Unix) file layouts...

["R. Bruce Hoffman, Jr." <rbruceh@xxxxxxx>]

Jon.Paris@halinfo.it wrote:

> total of seven digits of which two are decimals".  The RPG one requires me
> to use my brain to work out how many integer positions there are !!!
>
> Bruce H. - where are you when I need you ?
>

Just watching you "use your brain".It's funny you should mention brevity.  I 
just
got done doing an experiment in that area.  Wrote and RPG IV procedure and
re-wrote it in COBOL.  Basic date handling functions with CEE API calls  for the
really important stuff.  Turns out the RPG is *longer* than the COBOL, mostly
because of the requirement of protypes.

The RPG crowds that I have shown them to can read and understand the COBOL code
without comments, whereas you can watch the wheels turning in the RPG.  Mostly 
it
seems that they are parsing all those blank columns from the C to the EVAL...
<VBG>

But you guys got the COBOL right, just a flat file spec in COBOL.

b.
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