Last time I did any COBOL was 1987. Never looked back. On Tue, Apr 14, 2020 at 3:12 PM Chris Fala via vcf-midatlantic < vcf-midatlantic@lists.vcfed.org> wrote:
I learned Pascal, FORTRAN, and C back in the day. Never saw any COBOL but definitely interested.
On Tue, Apr 14, 2020 at 3:05 PM Christian Liendo via vcf-midatlantic < vcf-midatlantic@lists.vcfed.org> wrote:
Sorry I touched COBOL in like 1991.
Back then I determined I couldn't program for squat.
On Tue, Apr 14, 2020 at 3:00 PM Bill Degnan via vcf-midatlantic <vcf-midatlantic@lists.vcfed.org> wrote:
On Tue, Apr 14, 2020 at 1:56 PM Jeffrey Jonas via vcf-midatlantic < vcf-midatlantic@lists.vcfed.org> wrote:
Bill Degnan posted Q. State the four divisions of a COBOL program
A: earth air fire water: the 4 elements that make everything :-)
Close.
A. (if you look at the code you see the "bugs" ( * ) asterisk
characters
that have these sections like headers sort of. Anyway, here is what I have:
Identification Division: to identify the program, author, and state remarks.
Environment Division: identifies within the configuration section the type of comuter used within the input-output section; the files which are accessed.
Data Division: identifies the record layouts of the files and any other data elements used within the program.
Procedure Division: Contains the logic of the program.
Bill
P.S. This is a vintage computer club. I would think there is at least one COBOL guru here? I barely know anything other than running jobs TSO/JCL. By the time I worked at DuPont, the only professional COBOL environment I worked and everything was in production, we used to make changes to existing code.