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

[John Culleton]

On Wednesday 05 August 2009 05:57:02 pm Duke Normandin wrote:
> Should a COBOL noob like me be learning the language using the
> traditional (strict) formatting conventions in order to learn
> COBOL correctly, or is using the "free" source format OK in this
> day-and-age?
>
> I was even thinking of using some sort of template, like:
>
> 000100*A---B--+----2----+----3----+----4----+----5----+----6----+
>----7-- 000200 ID DIVISION.
> 000300 PROGRAM-ID. MY_PROG.
> 000400 AUTHOR. Duke.
> 000500 DATA DIVISION.
> 000600 WORKING-STORAGE SECTION.
> 000700
> 000800
> 000900
> 001000
> 001100
> 001200 PROCEDURE DIVISION.
> 001300 MAIN-PARA.

I have a template program like that.  I even have a program that 
will renumber a program like that.  But I learned COBOL in 1968 :<)

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