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Cobol language dictionary page
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| Christine Frayda 2005-10-17, 9:55 pm |
| Hello all,
I am hoping you would help with a Cobol Language Dictionary (cheat-sheet)
page in the Software Engineers' Handbook Wikibook. I'm looking for a quick
overview of general program structure with pointers to more specific
information. (Yes, I could look this all up, but it's much much faster if
you know the language well and have used it recently. The site is
under the GNU Documentation License, so I don't want to take examples
directly from books and many online references.)
Here's the Cobol page:
http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/ Softw...>
tionary:COBOL
Here is the web site for the wikibook
http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Softwa...ineers_Handbook
I would love help with the other pages too.
I would be happy to coordinate submissions for folks unwilling to adjust to
wiki markup.
Thanks for the help!
Chris
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| In article <qiX4f.62491$K91.29552@twister.nyroc.rr.com>,
Christine Frayda <cfrayda@rochester.rr.com> wrote:
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>(Yes, I could look this all up, but it's much much faster if
>you know the language well and have used it recently.
It's usually much faster if someone else does your homework for you, sure!
DD
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| Michael Mattias 2005-10-18, 7:55 am |
| "Christine Frayda" <cfrayda@rochester.rr.com> wrote in message
news:qiX4f.62491$K91.29552@twister.nyroc.rr.com...
> Hello all,
>
> I am hoping you would help with a Cobol Language Dictionary (cheat-sheet)
> page in the Software Engineers' Handbook Wikibook. I'm looking for a quick
> overview of general program structure with pointers to more specific
> information. (Yes, I could look this all up, but it's much much faster if
> you know the language well and have used it recently. The site is
Check the FAQ for this newsfgroup. Tons of links.
Link is posted monthly, find in archives or use one of the FAQ-finder web
pages.
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Michael Mattias
Tal Systems, Inc.
Racine WI
mmattias@talsystems.com
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| Howard Brazee 2005-10-18, 6:55 pm |
| On Tue, 18 Oct 2005 00:56:39 +0000 (UTC), docdwarf@panix.com () wrote:
>It's usually much faster if someone else does your homework for you, sure!
It depends on where you're trying to get to.
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| In article <29u9l1d4h4lsoisvhgedhj1um4mh74k3jg@4ax.com>,
Howard Brazee <howard@brazee.net> wrote:
>On Tue, 18 Oct 2005 00:56:39 +0000 (UTC), docdwarf@panix.com () wrote:
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>It depends on where you're trying to get to.
A lot of things are like that, aye.
DD
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| Cathy Sullivan 2005-10-18, 6:55 pm |
| docdwarf@panix.com wrote:
> In article <29u9l1d4h4lsoisvhgedhj1um4mh74k3jg@4ax.com>,
> Howard Brazee <howard@brazee.net> wrote:
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> A lot of things are like that, aye.
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> DD
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A wiki isn't homework.
A group of volunteers are creating a software engineers handbook. They
are asking actual COBOL programmers for help in producing the page about
COBOL.
The request wasn't about homework.
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| In article <dj3b7d$tc3$1@gnus01.u.washington.edu>,
Cathy Sullivan <cesulliv@cac.washington.edu> wrote:
>docdwarf@panix.com wrote:
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>A wiki isn't homework.
One might look upon the term 'homework' as a loose way of describing
'something one is supposed to do'... or one can construct a logical chain
along the lines of 'A wiki is voluntary, that which is voluntary is that
which one assigns to one'sself, that which one assigns to one'sself is an
assigned thing, homework is an assigned thing, a wiki is homework'... for
whatever validity such a chain might be seen as having.
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>A group of volunteers are creating a software engineers handbook. They
>are asking actual COBOL programmers for help in producing the page about
>COBOL.
They volunteered for something... and now, it seems they s others to do
that for which they, themselves, volunteered.
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>The request wasn't about homework.
That depends on the definitions and logic used, as noted above...
according to http://dictionary.reference.com/search?q=homework homework is
defined as 'Work, such as schoolwork or piecework, that is done at home';
work, of course, is that-which-requires-a-transfer-of-energy, using the
keyboard requires a transfer of energy... but maybe you are doing this On
The Job, who knows.
DD
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| Kevin M 2005-10-24, 9:55 pm |
| DumbASS!
<docdwarf@panix.com> wrote in message news:dj2u3b$h24$1@reader2.panix.com...
> In article <29u9l1d4h4lsoisvhgedhj1um4mh74k3jg@4ax.com>,
> Howard Brazee <howard@brazee.net> wrote:
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> A lot of things are like that, aye.
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> DD
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| Lueko Willms 2005-10-25, 7:55 am |
| .. On 18.10.05
wrote docdwarf@panix.com
on /COMP/LANG/COBOL
in dj3c9q$i2d$1@reader2.panix.com
about Re: Cobol language dictionary page
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d> One might look upon the term 'homework' as a loose way of describing
d> 'something one is supposed to do'... or one can construct a logical
d> chain
as soon as you make a contribution to the Wiki, it is your own
homework. You can sit at home at your computer and edit the articles
by yourself.
Yours,
Lüko Willms http://www.willms-edv.de
/--------- L.WILLMS@jpberlin.de -- Alle Rechte vorbehalten --
Eine einzige Seele war für seinen Leib zu wenig, er hätte zwoen zu tun genug geben können. -G.C.Lichtenberg
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| In article <1Bf7f.16315$RG4.909@fe05.lga>,
Kevin M <kmisenhxxx@charter.net> wrote:
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><docdwarf@panix.com> wrote in message news:dj2u3b$h24$1@reader2.panix.com...
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>DumbASS!
Such wit... but I believe that I've been called worse by better.
DD
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| docdwarf@panix.com wrote:
> In article <1Bf7f.16315$RG4.909@fe05.lga>,
> Kevin M <kmisenhxxx@charter.net> wrote:
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> Such wit... but I believe that I've been called worse by better.
I thought he had this newsgroup  with Dumb Automated System
Support! (He's probably used Dumb Automated Systems for so long,
they've rubbed off on him...)
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| In article <a8839$435e1d37$45491c57$23791@KNOLOGY.NET>,
LX-i <lxi0007@netscape.net> wrote:
>docdwarf@panix.com wrote:
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>I thought he had this newsgroup with Dumb Automated System
>Support! (He's probably used Dumb Automated Systems for so long,
>they've rubbed off on him...)
I'm not sure who is confusing what with whom... but it sounds like a
personal matter so I'll not inquire further into this 'rubbing off' stuff.
DD
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