[Gambas-user] COBOL and how great it was!

[Jussi Lahtinen]

Sorry, I don't understand the question. There is "print" keyword and the
output goes to stdout.

Jussi


On Fri, Nov 18, 2022 at 2:23 PM BB <adamnt42 at gmail.com> wrote:

> In the "old days" when I and you all wrote COBOL
>
> there was a way to specify a thingo called, i think, a report line. It
> looked something like
>
> 88 something or other
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> Mneh, it doesnt matter.  the point is . I  am getting there ...
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> Print, sprintf etc etc etc are really (he said) remnants of the 1970's
> or perhaps even earlier. Now, I want to disregard the eminently
> beautiful gb.report components here BUT
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> surely in this day and age it is possible to come up with "something"
> that would allow use to "Print" a set of stuff to stdout (or wherever).
>
> Maybe this damn project IS sending me insane(r).
>
>
> anyone
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> anyone, surely you have used COBOL?\
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