Path: ...!weretis.net!feeder8.news.weretis.net!eternal-september.org!feeder3.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: jgd@cix.co.uk (John Dallman) Newsgroups: comp.arch Subject: Re: COBOL, Article on new mainframe use Date: Sat, 24 Aug 2024 15:21 +0100 (BST) Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 11 Message-ID: References: Reply-To: jgd@cix.co.uk Injection-Date: Sat, 24 Aug 2024 16:21:21 +0200 (CEST) Injection-Info: dont-email.me; posting-host="14da2ad439226cec63b520aa12797f93"; logging-data="1507226"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX1/pvVVBLwNZo7CciRwUf+RAucpoFcQ4mXg=" Cancel-Lock: sha1:nvIo+rI9eo8SoYBJFxsCGq5I/k8= X-Clacks-Overhead-header: GNU Terry Pratchett Bytes: 1243 In article , sfuld@alumni.cmu.edu.invalid (Stephen Fuld) wrote: > ... you are confusing two different computer lines. Yes, I was. I thought the COBOL compiler with inline assembler was on the Algol-based Large Scale system. I think calling that combination eccentric would have been fair comment. John