Paul Edwards wrote in a message to Mick Howe:

 PE> Australia.  The cobol compilers that came with the text
 PE> books were CA-Realia (Computer Associates) and I can't
 PE> remember what the other one was.  The text books were under
 PE> $100 AUS from memory.  They both have restrictions such as
 PE> you can't compile a program more than 1000 lines long etc. 

1000 lines????  That will not make it as a academic compiler.  When I took
COBOL classes at one time, the skeleton of my programs were over 1000. 
Then again, it was the for the system/370 which required all that JCL. 
:>

btw, recently I found out - IBM has VisualAge COBOL!!!  Imagine that,
oject-oriented COBOL!!!  And OO CICS - which will run on OS/2!
What's next, OO JCL!!!  :> 

 - Dan 
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