XPost: alt.folklore.computers   
   From: Peter@Iron-Spring.com   
      
   On 1/8/26 18:15, c186282 wrote:   
   > On 1/8/26 09:43, Scott Lurndal wrote:   
   >> Lawrence =?iso-8859-13?q?D=FFOliveiro?=  writes:   
   >>> On Wed, 7 Jan 2026 19:21:09 -0700, Peter Flass wrote:   
   >>>   
   >>>> FORTRAN and COBOL are still around, but I don't thinks anyone from   
   >>>> the 70s would recognize them.   
   >>>   
   >>> COBOL is still COBOL. Fortran has evolved somewhat, post-Fortran-77.   
   >>   
   >> Modern COBOL is very different than COBOL-68 (or even COBOL-84).   
   >>   
   >> It even has pointers.   
   >   
   >    Then is it even still "COBOL" ? "NuBOL" instead ?   
   >   
      
   I think paragraphs can have local variables.   
      
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