[Info-vax] COBOL Was: Re: Digital

[Paul Sture]

On Wed, 01 Aug 2012 09:08:03 -0500, Bob Koehler wrote:

> 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.

I never got my hands on a DECSYSTEM so don't know.  VAX-COBOL certainly 
had the equivalent of an include statement with COPY, though you cannot 
nest those.

-- 
Paul Sture