Re: gnubol: Anyone actually working on Cobol

["Fred Neale" <fneale@tss.com.au>]

David L. Nicol wrote (in part) on 13/11/99

>  With a dynamic sort of architechture that loads verbs in
>  from a directory full of "verb definition files" which describe
>  in a system-internal language the meaning of the verb, allowing
>  for variant spellings could be as easy as
>
>  ln PERFORM PREFORM
>
>
>  Although portability would be maintained better by preprepreprocessing
>  with
>
>  sed s/PREFORM/PERFORM/g

Why not just spell it right in the first place?

Fred Neale




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