[Gambas-user] OT:Very nice compliments for gambas :))

Philip A. Chapman pchapman at ...129...
Fri Aug 27 09:13:18 CEST 2004


Rob wrote:
> On Wednesday 25 August 2004 11:53, Philip A. Chapman wrote:
> 
>># Only capital letters can be used. Some characters in the
>>ASCII range 0-32 are normal characters for COBOL
> 
> 
> I've worked with a number of different COBOL flavors, but all 
> Unix or Windows based.  While they all had most of the 
> restrictions you mention, I haven't seen one that was case 
> sensitive (even though most COBOL programmers still have the 
> caps lock key on when they're programming.)  Is this still a 
> mainframe thing or just the way it used to be?
> 

It has been a long time since I've worked with COBOL.  This may be a 
restriction that has been dropped in recent versions/implementations.

-- 
Philip A. Chapman

Application Development:
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