Re: [open-cobol-list] organizing code in Cobol

[Patrick]

> I generally write short programs linked together with CALL statements.
>
>   Books by Mike Murach and Associates are worth buying. Most
> college texts aren't. The Open Cobol 1.1 Programmer's Guide by
> Gary Cutler is an excellent reference. A book that has some
> interesting examples and marks the beginnig of structured
> programming in COBOL is "Modular Programming in COBOL" by Russell
> M. Armstrong. ISBN 0-471-03325-1 published in 1973. I generally
> write to the COBOL 85 standard. The more recent versions stray
> from the original purposes of the language. And I use the
> original paragraphs of the IDENTIFICATION DIVISION, including a
> meanigful *REMARKS paragraph. It is the mark of a professional COBOL
> programmer IMO. Its deletion from the the standard was totally foolish,
> again IMO.
>
> John Culleton
> COBOL since 1968.
45 years of Cobol  programming, wow! Thanks for posting John and thanks 
to Vince and Robert too.

I learned a lot today. It's a low volume list but what great 
information-Patrick