[Info-vax] Raxco VMS Tuning Seminar Notes

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In article <4cd81bda$0$30029$c3e8da3$76a7c58f at news.astraweb.com>, JF Mezei <jfmezei.spamnot at vaxination.ca> writes:
>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.

Well, this parser here hears it and emits an %ENGLISH-F-BADSYNTAX error.

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