Don’t forget the SKELETON language. 

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> On Jun 7, 2020, at 4:30 PM, Seymour J Metz <sme...@gmu.edu> wrote:
> 
>  1. ISPF is not a language.If you are referring to panel definition 
> statements,
>     ELSE uses indentation to control scope. Python does the same thing. I
>     don't like it, but it is what it is.
> 
> 2. SO/END blocks containing only a single statement are useful if you
>     may be adding code in the future. It's a stylistic issue about which
>     you will never achieve consensus.
> 
> 
> --
> Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz
> http://mason.gmu.edu/~smetz3
> 
> ________________________________________
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> Bob Bridges [robhbrid...@gmail.com]
> Sent: Sunday, June 7, 2020 2:35 PM
> To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU
> Subject: Re: COBOL Question
> 
> The only language I can think of off-hand that doesn't require some sort of 
> END to close a DO (I'm sure there are others) is ISPF.  But, in REXX at 
> least, I never use single-statement DOs.  I see them all the time, and I 
> don't get it.  Like this:
> 
>  if x=0 then do
>    x=x+1
>  end
> 
> Or, more painfully:
> 
>  select
>    when idx="T" then
>      do
>        countt=countt+1
>      end
>    when idx="U" then
>      do
>        countu=countu+1

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