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

[Michael Sullivan]

I preferred to use capital letters in COBOL.  Ours was the first class
to use a local IDE instead of working off the mainframe.  Our programs
compiled a lot faster that way.  The capital letters were easier to me
to read.  I couldn't see very well.  I've had surgery to install
interocular implants since then...

On Fri, 2004-08-27 at 02:13, Philip A. Chapman wrote:
> 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.