Cobol - Re: "Goto statement considered superfluous" (was: If you were inventing

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Re: "Goto statement considered superfluous" (was: If you were inventing

David Speight

2004-09-28, 3:55 am

Richard wrote:
> Robert Wagner <robert@wagner.net.yourmammaharvests> wrote
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> What percentage of all those machines are 64 bit ? Given that Intel
> is about 90% of all machines and 99% of them are not 64bit, and for
> example there is _no_ 64bit Cobol compiler for Intel that I am aware
> of, then your vague assurances are not productive.

I dare say that much less that 90% of all machines using COBOL are Intel
platforms.

COBOL, at least from my experience is more mainframe/midrange machines,
not PC's.

I will give you the old MVS & VSE machines were 32 bit, I am not sure
what they are now.

But some RS/6000's are 64 bit and AS/400's went from 48 bit to 64 bit
back in the mid 90's.

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