From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,FREEMAIL_FROM autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,5faad1722103f6a7 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public Path: g2news1.google.com!news1.google.com!news.glorb.com!border1.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!local1.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.comcast.com!news.comcast.com.POSTED!not-for-mail NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 11 Jun 2004 21:31:12 -0500 Date: Fri, 11 Jun 2004 22:31:12 -0400 From: "Robert I. Eachus" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.4) Gecko/20030624 Netscape/7.1 (ax) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: 7E7 Flight Controls Electronics References: <7_Sxc.8670$uX2.5497@newsread2.news.pas.earthlink.net> In-Reply-To: <7_Sxc.8670$uX2.5497@newsread2.news.pas.earthlink.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: NNTP-Posting-Host: 24.147.90.114 X-Trace: sv3-K2nSEFS4BxJeoUKwym9GVtYR1yOWbb2N5PpKR5LLKZRy/uoeWid5PBCxZzSWvJ+ADS5N+zNUlJd/gG/!qdROfZDa3tZt+XtDLo3aM3XYVhdCwoOrnIvqkvtqkEtlphRy0Z6ddin5VlvKmw== X-Complaints-To: abuse@comcast.net X-DMCA-Complaints-To: dmca@comcast.net X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Please be sure to forward a copy of ALL headers X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Otherwise we will be unable to process your complaint properly X-Postfilter: 1.1 Xref: g2news1.google.com comp.lang.ada:1410 Date: 2004-06-11T22:31:12-04:00 List-Id: Richard Riehle wrote: > The data structures were consistently global, thereby making the notion of > localization of data impossible. The fact that FORTRAN also failed to > provide adequate scoping rules for conditional constructs does not make > the same defect in COBOL any more acceptable. But there was a major difference. It was common in COBOL* in the 60's and 70's to write what we would now make a subroutine as a Cobol program, and use JCL to tie the various COBOL programs together to create an application. Yes, I can agree that programming in JCL was painful, but that had little to do with COBOL, and everything to do with the memory sizes on then current machines. You couldn't fit the whole program--or whole dataset--in memory, and you wouldn't run into thrashing, since most machines did no have virtual memory. (Yes, I know that some 360s and all 370s had virtual memory support, but you had to run an OS that used it.) *Capitilization intentional to distinguish between two versions of the language. -- Robert I. Eachus The ideology he opposed throughout his political life insisted that history was moved by impersonal tides and unalterable fates. Ronald Reagan believed instead in the courage and triumph of free men and we believe it all the more because we saw that courage in him. -- George W. Bush June 11, 2004