Re: gnubol: COBOL and C

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

Tim Josling wrote on 1/12/99:

>> 2. What is the importance of supporting-
>> goback (from IBM cobol)
>> entry (from IBM cobol, multiple entry points, not the same as 'enter')

IMHO terribly important. The goback statement is possibly redundant as it could
be replaced with an 'exit program' statement but I am a very heavy user of the
entry statement and find this an extremely useful function of COBOL.

The idea of writing the runtime in COBOL sounds like a wonderful idea

Cheers

Fred Neale



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