November 26, 1998: an essay on When to Use Object Orientation.
August 22, 1998: David Rennie defends the use of sections in the PROCEDURE DIVISION. He also advocates an alphanumeric scheme (rather than strictly numeric) for numbering procedure names.
June 6, 1998: A suggestion from Dave Sailer about the alignment of TO clauses.
January 10, 1998: A brief introduction to the Object-Oriented paradigm.
December 26, 1997: Precautions about ALTER in the presence of segmentation.
December 22, 1997: More details about the syntax of Object-Oriented COBOL.
December 20, 1997: Started a new section on Object-Oriented COBOL.
Various times: I've been adding pages to the discussion of untangling loops.
November 1, 1997: A new argument in favor of GO TO.
October 22, 1997: A correction to the discussion of global variables (I just discovered that COBOL II supports them directly).
September 28, 1997: Examples of state transition diagrams for parsing ZIP codes and telephone numbers.
September 6, 1997: Started a list of other sites which link to mine.
September 6, 1997: Added a page from Lee Beaulieu about the use of periods.
August 16, 1997: Added a series of pages about rewriting spaghetti code.
July 30, 1997: Incorporated some suggestions from Colin Campbell, particularly about the omission of parameters from subprogram calls, as an alternative to multiple entry points.
July 11, 1997: Corrected some misinformation about the need for sections with the SORT verb.
July 10, 1997: The Iron Laws of Software Development.
July 10, 1997: A note from Lars Bjerges about global PCBs.
July 8, 1997: A defense of flower box style comments from Arnold Trembley.
July 8, 1997: A note on function pointers in Micro Focus Cobol, from Raymond W. Leech III.
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