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To: tech who wrote (1377)	11/23/1997 2:48:00 PM
From: TEDennis	Respond to of 3391

tech: Interesting post. History lesson, and all. OK, I'll give you that they should get recognition for having done something that hadn't been done before ... that we know of, anyway. However, I'm entitled to my opinion, and my opinion is that relative to an MVS conversion, an HP3000 conversion is no great shakes. Particularly a relatively small conversion of one application that was probably written by just a few programmers all instructed to code to a fixed set of standards. Or, maybe even by students programming right out of the book of examples. Open up the MVS flood gates and you'll get one site with hundreds of applications, thousands of programs, and millions of lines of code ... and you all of a sudden have variations galore. It's amazing how different people interpret the same sentence in a COBOL manual. It's also amazing how different people create some pretty wild techniques to circumvent shortcomings in the COBOL language itself. Throw into that mix the various library managers, JCL conventions, embedded PROCs, PROCLIB statements, etc ... Well, whatever ... Sure is a pretty day ... TED