[Info-vax] cobol.vim for VIM

[John Reagan]

"Richard Maher" <maher_rj at hotspamnotmail.com> wrote in message 
news:gos6v2$cj6$1 at news-01.bur.connect.com.au...
> Hi John,
>
> Wasn't DECset one of those products that went to EDS like ACMS and so on? 
> (I
> think they were all brought back to HP/VMS long before HP took over EDS?)

Yes, DECset was maintained by EDS for a while.  Yes, the engineering was 
brought back in house years ago.

> Personally, I can't see any advantage of an LSE for a language such as
> COBOL. Or any 3GL for that matter unless, as Michael says, you're 
> learning.

> Now how did that MOVE statement go again [expand], [expand], [expand] 
> that's
> it "TO" :-)
>

I agree.  If are experienced, you might only want to expand a template to 
help save some typing.  EVALUATE comes to mind.  Or if you forget all the 
varieties of compiler builtins or the order of sections.

Personally, I've used LSE's templates about a dozen times in the past five 
years.  And I don't do enough coding-from-scratch to add my own custom 
templates.  I'm often expanding/changing existing code with its own coding 
style (such as it is).

John