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- From: tdarcos@digex.digex.com (Paul Robinson)
- Newsgroups: alt.cobol
- Subject: Re: COBOL automatic flow charter
- Date: 21 Jan 1993 12:06:46 GMT
- Organization: Tansin A. Darcos & Company, Silver Spring, MD USA
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- n087ec@tamuts.tamu.edu (Hessel Kooistra) writes:
- : Several people have mailed me asking about my program, so I have
- : a history and description worked up:
- :
- : I am an "older" undergraduate business analysis student here
- : at Texas A&M University. One of the courses I have had to take was
- : COBOL. With each lab we turned in, we had to turn in, (get this):
- :
- : 1. IPO chart
- : 2. Hierarchy chart
- : 3. Output design chart
- : 4. Flow chart
- :
-
- Are they, by any chance, using Cashman's books? I went to Midland
- College in Midland Texas for one month almost ten years ago and the only
- time I impressed the teacher was when I told him I had the "privelege" of
- taking classes from Mr. Cashman who also, along with Mr. Keys, was a
- personal friend of mine.
-
- At least you developed something to automate the process. I tended to
- simply write the paperwork to match the program, after the program was
- already finished, just like everyone else.
-
- I think there are only two major regrets I have. First was that I thought
- of writing a BASIC to COBOL translator, but I figured there wouldn't be
- much interest. The second was when I and someone else wrote a program to
- simulate a computer, and I never did anything about the name we made up,
- which I had done so more than five years ago. The name I made up for the
- Program was "OS2". IBM would be paying *me* royalties now!
-