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To: Ilaine who wrote (35637)11/9/1998 5:28:00 PM
From: MythMan  Respond to of 132070
 
CB,

I have no idea and Ice is a young pup so if he knows it means he looked it up.

MM



To: Ilaine who wrote (35637)11/9/1998 5:34:00 PM
From: yard_man  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 132070
 
This is intrinsic to Cobol? I thought it was just a choice that came into vogue with programmers when storage was not cheap.



To: Ilaine who wrote (35637)11/9/1998 5:40:00 PM
From: voodooist  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 132070
 
<<Do you know the name of the guy who decided that COBOL only needed two digits to express years>> Cobalt, back in the 60's I was a systems development programmer at IBM working mainly on FORTRAN compilers, but I also did a stint on a COBOL compiler. You might be surprised to hear that many of the managers and programmers involved with both efforts were on the distaff side of the company.<GGG>


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