[Info-vax] HP wins Oracle Itanium case

[Jan-Erik Soderholm]

Paul Sture wrote 2012-08-23 14:38:
> On Wed, 22 Aug 2012 12:44:03 +0000, ChrisQ wrote:
>
>>
>> Still have half a box or so of wide line printer paper and bound RT11
>> macro listings from the late 80's / early nineties. I always want 132
>> column wide edits, code to the left, comments to the right and line
>> printers could handle that. Laser printers bring that up to date with
>> 8pt terminal fonts and landscape mode.
>
> I have tried laser printers in landscape mode but the results were never
> as satisfying as line printer output.
>
>> Some think it's obsessive, but I really don't like comments
>> interspersed with the code, as it breaks up the visual scan.
>
> That was/is the big problem with COBOL.  Comments have to go on their own
> lines.  That's fine at the beginning of a chunk of code, but as you say,
> it breaks up the visual flow when you find it elsewhere.  Unfortunately
> this can lead to large pieces of code without any comments at all.
>
>> I still print as well, but with the availability of tabbed editors like
>> nedit, I find less need for it. It also saves paper, which I have to pay
>> for myself much of the time these days :-)...
>
> Even EDIT/TPU on a 24 line VT was useful here. For example you could be
> looking at data definitions or a separate calling routing in the top
> window, and some code in a lower window.
>
> Tabbed editors don't really give me all I want here.  I prefer editors
> which allow you to view different bits of code in separate windows,
> either side by side or above/below, depending on the task in hand.
>

I have used UltraEdit32 for some COBOL work. I have installed (and
slightly modified) a COBOL language file taht gives med collaps/expand
of PERFORM, IF-ENDIF and other common "blocks" of code. And UE32 of
course has all kind of "split-view" you need.

Jan-Erik.