29 Nov
2007
29 Nov
'07
4:40 p.m.
On 29 Nov 2007 at 15:30, Fred Cisin wrote:
For a while, I had a binder on one of my office
bookshelves labelled
"COBAL", due only to having a temporary worker who couldn't spell COBOL.
I thought it might be a dialect of 360/20 assembly language.
Come to think of it, when COBOL was released for S/360 DOS (I don't
know about the OS/360 version), indexed-sequential file access was
left out. The compiler would accept the syntax, but wouldn't
generate anything. IBM released a set of object modules that allowed
the programmer to use the facility by employing "ENTER" statements.
I think I still have the publication that describes the procedure
somewhere. Maybe that was COBAL?
Cheers,
Chuck