I remember once a COBOL programmer telling me that ALTER GOTO was the languages first concession to structured programming.
I ran gibbering back to my nice, safe stack of assembly, system macros and PL/I manuals :-) Roops On Sat, 2 Aug 2025, 21:26 Paul Gilmartin, < 00000014e0e4a59b-dmarc-requ...@listserv.uga.edu> wrote: > On 8/2/25 07:54, Charles Mills wrote: > > I think I recall code back in the day that did clever "computed branch" > logic by making a BC or BCR instruction the target of EX. > > > Did that gain the programmer any advantage over such as > TM; BC or was it entirely theatrical? > > > I would defenestrate any programmer that did that sort of thing today. > > > Is the ALTER instruction alive and well in COBOL? > > -- > gil >
