* Reply to msg originally in OS/2 Programming

-=> Quoting Daniel Morgan to Paul Edwards <=-

 DM> Paul Edwards wrote in a message to Mick Howe:
 
 PE> Australia.  The cobol compilers that came with the text
 PE> $100 AUS from memory.  They both have restrictions such as
 PE> you can't compile a program more than 1000 lines long etc. 

 DM> 1000 lines????  That will not make it as a academic compiler.  When I
 DM> took COBOL classes at one time, the skeleton of my programs were over
 DM> 1000.  Then again, it was the for the system/370 which required all
 DM> that JCL.  :> 
 DM> btw, recently I found out - IBM has VisualAge COBOL!!!  Imagine that,
Can you let me know more about this and any CHEAP COBOL compilers for OS/2.
I've spent a fair bit on learning the language and don't want to let it go 
to waste. COBOL is also still the most staight forward way to I can see to 
do some things.

BTW a $99 US package becomes $200 to $275 Aust by the time it hits the shelves
here when the exchange rate was $1.00 aust buys 78 cents US.

cat chew l8a, /\/\ick



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