[Info-vax] COBOL Was: Re: Digital

[Bob Koehler]

In article <stcne9-8nq2.ln1 at news1.chingola.ch>, Paul Sture <paul at sture.ch> writes:
> On Tue, 31 Jul 2012 13:25:19 -0600, Bob Koehler wrote:
> 
>>    And when we compiled it, it overflowed the COBOL line counter on
>>    DECSYSTEM 20s, leading to a nice latin message.
> 
> I came across this mentality too.  Some obviously former COBOL programmer 
> had written a huge DIBOL program on RSTS, with not a subroutine in 
> sight.  It simply wouldn't fit into the available memory we had on RT-11 
> so we had to chop it up and use overlays.

   OBTW, this was one subroutine.   I don't recall if it was one file,
   did DECSYSTEM-20 COBOL have the equivalent of an include statement?

   Or maybe some of it was the DBMS interface providing all too many
   copies of schema definitions to the poorly written code.