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On Fri, 23 Aug 2024 09:40:00 +0200
Terje Mathisen <terje.mathisen@tmsw.no> wrote:

> MitchAlsup1 wrote:
> > On Sun, 18 Aug 2024 18:21:00 +0000, John Dallman wrote:
> >  =20
> >> =A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0 I had a basic COBOL course at =
college in 1980-81, and
> >> became quite clear that this wasn't what I wanted to do.
> >>
> >> John =20
> >=20
> > So, John is not a COBOholic !! =20
>=20
> Also not a COBOL fan, mostly due to the verbosity.
>=20
> I once ported a COBOL-specific algorithm to Pascal, which meant that
> I had to reimplement code for all the 80-col punch card formatted IO
> as well as sorting according to quite special rules.
>=20
> The original was 25 pages, my replacement ~5, at least half of which
> was the COBOL specific function replacements, so the mainline code
> became an order of magnitude smaller.
>=20
> Terje
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What would be the size if you were porting it from COBOL to COBOL ?