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- From: Don Nelson <nelson_don@comm.tandem.com>
- Subject: Re: Goldilocks & The Three Bears in COBOL
- Message-ID: <1992Nov20.180753.29761@tandem.com>
- X-Xxdate: Fri, 20 Nov 92 19:18:08 GMT
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- References: <1992Nov19.191709.28618@unocal.com>
- Date: Fri, 20 Nov 1992 18:07:53 GMT
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- In article <1992Nov19.191709.28618@unocal.com> Marc Furon,
- stctmkf@st.unocal.com writes:
- >
- >Does anyone have a copy of Goldilocks & The Three Bears in COBOL? I had
- >a copy years ago, but I can't seem to find it now.
- >
- >(It was a classic--the PROCEDURE DIVISION had lines in it like
- >"EXAMINE BEDS REPLACING ALL GOLDILOCKS BY BEARS.")
-
- This must have been old. EXAMINE was deleted in favor of INSPECT in the
- 1974 COBOL Standard.
-
- Don Nelson
- COBOL Development, Tandem Computers, Inc
- ex-Chariman, CODASYL COBOL Committee
- nelson_don@comm.tandem.com
-