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From: eugene@pioneer.arpa (Eugene N. Miya)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.fortran
Subject: Re: Fortran Problem  --  HELP!!
Message-ID: <7990@ames.arpa>
Date: 28 Apr 88 04:20:28 GMT
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Reply-To: eugene@pioneer.UUCP (Eugene N. Miya)
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Organization: NASA Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, Calif.
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Keywords: Reports <> FORTRAN | c

> COBOL

Sorry this is a poor example on the use of COBOL.  There are
better languages for report generation (this is not character manipulation).
I've written enough DATA DIVISIONs to know (More than 1 is enough).
Perhaps try RPG II, or better yet a combination of of AWK, and shell scripts.
I don't intend to help some's homework, but do consider more than the source
(Fortran) program to do this work.

If I could change one bit of my past by travelling back in time, I would
convince my younger self that the one COBOL class I was about to take was a
mistake.  Better to have taken a Religious Studies Class to get the GE
requirements out of the way.

Follow-ups to comp.lang.cobol.  ;-)  And Flames to /dev/null.

Another gross generalization from

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