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From: "Stephen Fuld" <SFuld@alumni.cmu.edu.invalid>
Newsgroups: comp.arch
Subject: Re: ALTER, ASSIGN and labels-as-values (was: Unicode in strings)
Date: Tue, 28 May 2024 17:34:03 -0000 (UTC)
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Scott Lurndal wrote:

> "Stephen Fuld" <SFuld@alumni.cmu.edu.invalid> writes:
> > John Levine wrote:
> > 
> >> According to Stephen Fuld <SFuld@alumni.cmu.edu.invalid>:
> >> > As I said before, you could easily scan the source code and find
> all >> > the ALTER statements ...
> >> 
> >> Hm, I'm guessing you've never dropped a box containing 2000 source
> >> cards.
> > 
> > 
> > I have (remember using a marker to put a diagonal line across the
> > top of the deck to make it easier to spot an out of order card?
> > :-(.  But that isn't the point.  When I said scan, I was referring
> > to the paper listings that, in the day, were easily available.
> 
> We always used the sequence number field with COBOL, so the
> deck could be sorted using a card sorter if dropped.

Good point.  I had forgotten about that.



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 - Stephen Fuld 
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