Re: [open-cobol-list] Which formatting convention to use?

[Duke Normandin]

On Wed, 5 Aug 2009, Gary Cutler wrote:

> Many IT departments that use COBOL prefer fixed over free so that cols 1-6
> can be used as a change id (a tag that identifies who was the last one to
> change a line of code and when.  Observe this example:

[snip the good stuff]

I'll have to save the example code until I change to a few different
shades of green. ;)

I'm 2-3 days into this, after spending most of my programming time
with Perl, PHP, TCL/Tk and newLISP. I'm still tying to understand the
"lay of the land" so to speak.

No worries though! I hope to understand your example in the
not-too-distant future -- God willing! Thanks for the input!
-- 
Duke
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