Cobol - Re: ALTER design (Was: Code problems with Perform Thru Exit causes fall through)

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Re: ALTER design (Was: Code problems with Perform Thru Exit causes fall through)

Doug Miller

2007-08-01, 6:55 pm

In article <qru0b3l3c468hbvhtmuhrkg70v1vpomcuo@4ax.com>, Binyamin Dissen <postingid@dissensoftware.com> wrote:
>On Mon, 30 Jul 2007 20:49:15 -0700 Richard <riplin@Azonic.co.nz> wrote:
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>:>At the time of Cobol being designed in the late 50s it was quite
>:>common for assembler programmers to use self-modifying code as a way
>:>of avoiding the overhead of testing flags.
>
>No, it was to reduce memory requirements.

Actually, it was both.

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