Re: language design implications for variant records in a pascal-like language

Hans-Peter Diettrich <DrDiettrich1@aol.com>
Wed, 12 Jan 2011 14:30:29 +0100

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From: Hans-Peter Diettrich <DrDiettrich1@aol.com>
Newsgroups: comp.compilers
Date: Wed, 12 Jan 2011 14:30:29 +0100
Organization: Compilers Central
References: 10-12-040 10-12-043 11-01-005 11-01-009 11-01-027 11-01-031
Keywords: Cobol, history
Posted-Date: 13 Jan 2011 00:10:48 EST

glen herrmannsfeldt schrieb:


> I have still not written any COBOL, though some day maybe just to
> say that I did. I do remember the stories, though, of having to
> keep the list nearby to avoid using any of the words.


Interestingly only English speakers have such problems. In one of my
first IS lessons we've been encouraged to use natural (German) words
for identifiers all over, to prevent such problems. Obeying this
simple rule I never noticed even the existence of the keyword problem,
in all my COBOL code :-)


Now I wonder why APL then wasn't the big breakthrough, eliminating any
possible clashes with natural languages ;-)


DoDi


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