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From: "Dale King" <KingD@TCE.com>
Subject: Re: Partners Wanted
Date: 1999/07/13
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Andrew Koenig wrote in message ...
>Cobol.  Perfectly understandable.  Yeah, right.
>
>OK, here's a pop quiz.  If X is 7 and Y is 3 and you execute
>
> MULTIPLY X BY Y.
>
>what will be the values of X and Y afterwards?

Judging by this sample code: http://www.baylor.edu/~Galen_Swint/cbl_ex.html

I'd say X = 7 and Y = 21.

I for one would never say Cobol is obvious having programmed in it many
moons ago.

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 --- Dale King