RE: Basic Cobol

[D.BALE@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]

Wow, talk about visual metaphors!  Not sure what it does for my attitude
towards COBOL.

Dan Bale
IT - AS/400
Handleman Company
248-362-4400  Ext. 4952

-------------------------- Original Message --------------------------
Keith,

I eat dead people. Now you will NEVER forget the four divisions in a COBOL
program. Identification, Environment, Data Division and Procedure. The first
is kinda sorta like an H-spec in a way, almost. The Environment tells your
compiler what Environment you are running on. (Source Machine etc). Data
defines all you Data, like I-specs and D-specs and procedure does the work
in a lovely free format style (almost, there are some columns involved).

But my vision of hell is up to your waist in boiling manure while writing
endless COBOL programs. So good luck.

Alistair
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