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Article #1140aren't standards wonderful?
From: k... Ken Yap
Date: Fri, 26 Jan 1990 00:45
Date: Fri, 26 Jan 1990 00:45
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I'm one person who has been bitten by a British/American spelling difference in a compiler keyword. When I did my time in DP, I was asked to help convert a bunch of COBOL programs running on an ICL to Vax 11/750 (VMS). So, using the software tool approach, I pulled out the Ratfor sed clone and wrote a bunch of scripts to do the first 90%. It was slow, but what the heck, it had to be done only once. But the VMS compiler was still barfing on the converted programs. I scratched my head and checked the syntax several times. Then it dawned on me. The ICL program read: INITIALISATION SECTION. The VMS compiler wanted INITIALIZATION SECTION. The fix was trivial.
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Path: mbox-mo1.pugleaf.net!gmdzi!unido!mcsun!uunet!samsung!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!sunybcs!uhura.cc.rochester.edu!rochester!ken From: k...@cs.rochester.edu (Ken Yap) Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Subject: aren't standards wonderful? Message-ID: <1990Jan26.004500.22330@cs.rochester.edu> Date: 26 Jan 90 00:45:00 GMT Reply-To: k...@cs.rochester.edu Organization: University of Rochester Computer Science Department Lines: 18 Posted: Fri Jan 26 01:45:00 1990 Address: Rochester, NY 14627, (716) 275-1448 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit