Re: (Non-Standard) ODO's (by William M. Klein wmklein@nospam.netcom.com)

On 13 Mar, 14:31, Robert <n...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:

>
> > i did some programming on a univac machine and their cobol pre-85
compiler followed ibm's lead.
>
> Of course. All right thinkers follow IBM's lead. It's the holy writ.

I'm glad that you have seen the light. As I work on an IBM Cobol
(don't ask me which one) I can confirm that the compiler allocated the
maximum record size possible.

As a member of the Elect, I have rarely seen Assembler listings of
Cobol code (twice I think in 30 years) and believe that feature was
more usually restricted to the Gods (aka systems programmers) although
they usually worked in the only language worth using, Assembler.