Re: "Substantive Changes"

On Mon, 08 Oct 2007 09:56:33 -0600, LX-i <lxi0007@netscape.net> wrote:

>Are you familiar with the rationale regarding combining EXAMINE,
>INSPECT, and TRANSFORM?  I had forgotten about transform - and the
>syntax seemed a bit more intuitive to me.  Of course, they trained us on
>COBOL 85, but then put us in a COBOL 74 shop - so, we didn't learn a
>whole lot about the features that had been removed in the 85 standard.
>Was it just an attempt to reduce the number of reserved words?  Why not
>keep EXAMINE and TRANSFORM and ditch INSPECT?  :)

Micro Focus retained the old forms. Why didn't IBM?