On 9 Feb 2010 at 15:44, Russ Bartlett wrote:
It took far less time to assemble a program in BAL
that compile a
COBOL program.? The down side was it took a lot longer to write.
I imagine that you didn't use many I/O library macros then. On a Mod
40 running DOS using the F-level assembler, it took forever for the
assembler to crunch through those things. They were pretty hairy.
--Chuck