Cobol - Re: OO in Batch (Was: Program ID)

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Re: OO in Batch (Was: Program ID)

Robert Wagner

2004-06-25, 9:21 pm

Joe Zitzelberger <joe_zitzelberger@nospam.com> wrote:

> Collections & Tables.
> Cobol has been living in data structure poverty for a long time.
>It's only collection structure, the table, is quite limited. Using LE
>(or your compilers utility routines) storage allocation routines and
>either manual or automatic complex-ODO one can usually represent the
>most complicated of structures. But it is not pretty.

Last year I presented a demo that constructed ODO, dynamically allocated,
instances of programs, lines and words. I thought it was pretty. The ODO was
simple, not complex.

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