C From a COBOL Perspectiveby@ProgRockRec
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C From a COBOL Perspective

by Shawn Gordon20mDecember 13th, 2018
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At least 65% of the world's code is still written in COBOL, with 5 Billion new lines a year being written. At some point that old COBol code is going to have to be rewritten or maintained because of how stable and clean it is. The #define command is almost the same as the $DEFINE command in C/C/C++/etc. The advantage to using the COPY command to retrieve members from a COPYLIB is that you can do dynamic text replacement.

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