On Sun, 12 Oct 2008 20:00:34 -0400, Robert A. Rosenberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>... the disassembled code was unreadable to them. > >Which means that they are claiming to also be unable to read/use a >Cobol created PMAP (a task which I would expect that a Cobol >PROGRAMMER [as opposed to a CODER] should be able to do). >... To be fair (an uncommon stance for me!), there's a big difference between looking at the code generated by a compiler when you have the source statements, and looking at disassembled instructions when you do not have the source. Even if you were familiar enough with the code generated by current compilers to be able to reconstruct COBOL source, our would also have to be familiar the way older compilers generated code. (The good news is that there was probably less optimization in the older code.) Pat O'Keefe ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
