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Re: IBM scrambles to find or train more COBOL programmers to help states

From Charlie Gibbs <cgibbs@kltpzyxm.invalid>
Newsgroups alt.folklore.computers
Subject Re: IBM scrambles to find or train more COBOL programmers to help states
Date 2020-04-16 21:27 +0000
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On 2020-04-16, Dennis Boone <drb@ihatespam.msu.edu> wrote:

>> ADD 1 TO COBOL GIVING COBOL-PLUS-ONE.
>
> ADD 1 TO COBOL GIVING COBOL.

That looks like the work of the Department of Redundancy Department.
The GIVING clause is unnecessary if you're incrementing a variable.

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IBM scrambles to find or train more COBOL programmers to help states Peter Flass <peter_flass@yahoo.com> - 2020-04-15 06:49 -0700
  Re: IBM scrambles to find or train more COBOL programmers to help states mentificium@gmail.com - 2020-04-15 09:40 -0700
  Re: IBM scrambles to find or train more COBOL programmers to help states usenet@only.tnx (Questor) - 2020-04-15 19:59 +0000
    Re: IBM scrambles to find or train more COBOL programmers to help states Gareth Evans <headstone255@yahoo.com> - 2020-04-15 21:34 +0100
    Re: IBM scrambles to find or train more COBOL programmers to help states John Levine <johnl@taugh.com> - 2020-04-15 21:39 +0000
      Re: IBM scrambles to find or train more COBOL programmers to help states Quadibloc <jsavard@ecn.ab.ca> - 2020-04-15 16:07 -0700
    Re: IBM scrambles to find or train more COBOL programmers to help states Thomas Koenig <tkoenig@netcologne.de> - 2020-04-15 21:49 +0000
      Re: IBM scrambles to find or train more COBOL programmers to help states drb@ihatespam.msu.edu (Dennis Boone) - 2020-04-15 19:45 -0500
        Re: IBM scrambles to find or train more COBOL programmers to help states Quadibloc <jsavard@ecn.ab.ca> - 2020-04-16 01:01 -0700
          Re: IBM scrambles to find or train more COBOL programmers to help states Bob Eager <news0073@eager.cx> - 2020-04-16 08:14 +0000
        Re: IBM scrambles to find or train more COBOL programmers to help states Charlie Gibbs <cgibbs@kltpzyxm.invalid> - 2020-04-16 21:27 +0000
          Re: IBM scrambles to find or train more COBOL programmers to help states Thomas Koenig <tkoenig@netcologne.de> - 2020-04-17 16:11 +0000
            Re: IBM scrambles to find or train more COBOL programmers to help states mentificium@gmail.com - 2020-04-17 15:09 -0700
              Re: IBM scrambles to find or train more COBOL programmers to help states Charlie Gibbs <cgibbs@kltpzyxm.invalid> - 2020-04-17 23:52 +0000

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