[Info-vax] Raxco VMS Tuning Seminar Notes

[JF Mezei]

VAXman- @SendSpamHere.ORG wrote:

> Once?  That's typical Jersey-speak!  It makes my ears bleed to hear it
> and I don't care who it is that's said it, I make an effort to correct
> it.

Early cobol requires the code be all uppercase and that lines start at
specific columns within a line. Later versio of cobol (such as DEC's)
allowed the use of the TAB character, allowed uppercase and lowercase
and was much mroe flexible in terms of where characters started within a
line.


Perhaps the same is happening to languages where there is more
flexibility in its use as long as peoople continue to be able to parse
and understand the language.