[PLUG] Cobol: was Topic for North this month

[Steve Litt <slitt@troubleshooters.com>]

On Thu, 5 Oct 2017 12:12:19 -0400
Walt Mankowski <waltman@pobox.com> wrote:

> We still need a speaker for North on Tuesday.  I haven't done my COBOL
> and punch cards talk there yet. Any interest?

I always liked Cobol, except for the fact that every variable was a
global variable, which drove me away.

Did Cobol ever get local variables inside procedures or whatever their
subroutines are called?
 
SteveT

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