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Walt Mankowski is a recovering ivory tower computer scientist who recently completed a postdoc working with biologists to process and visualize terabytes of 2D and 3D time lapse microscope images. In his past life he spent 10 years as a COBOL programmer at a major cable home shopping network. He enjoys Perl, regular expressions, high-performance computing, and Futurama.
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No, the problem was that the period in column 73 was ignored. I first saw it on the Stratus VOS compiler, and I was able to duplicate it in GnuCOBOL. It would have happened with any control structure.
Yes, the source is in the hyperlink in the previous sentence.