[Info-vax] Writer advice requested

[Norm Raphael]

---- "Richard B. Gilbert" <rgilbert88 at comcast.net> wrote: 
> On 11/15/2010 7:55 PM, VAXman- @SendSpamHere.ORG wrote:
> > In article<4ce1bedc$0$29264$c3e8da3$88b277c5 at news.astraweb.com>, JF Mezei<jfmezei.spamnot at vaxination.ca>  writes:
> >> Rob Brown wrote:
> >>
> >>>> What's wrong with COBOL?
> >>>
> >>> A cross between Assembler and English, with all the disadvantages of
> >>> both.
> >>
> >>
> >> This brings instant image of Mr VAXman doing kernel code in COBOL :-)
> >
> > Never.  I still can't figure out where the code is in all the PIC crap.
> > When I see PIC, I think Position Independent Code.
> >
> >
> 
> In COBOL "PIC" means "PICture".  It's more or less the equivalent of a 
> FORTRAN "FORMAT" statement and describes how input data or output data 
> is to be formatted.
> 
> Move down to the "PROCEDURE DIVISION" to find the executable code.
> 
> Sometimes I amaze myself!  I haven't written a line of COBOL in 
> thirty-two years!

Drinker:  Are you mocking me?

Barkeep:  No, I was mocking him!

-Naragansett Beer commercial, Mike Nichols and Elayne May, ca 1955
--
Norman F. Raphael
"Everything worthwhile eventually 
degenerates into real work." -Murphy