Is it possible to create C-style "main" function in Python? (for teaching purposes)

Tim Roberts timr at probo.com
Sat Oct 8 18:20:44 EDT 2011


Dennis Lee Bieber <wlfraed at ix.netcom.com> wrote:
>
>	While I wouldn't want to write an FFT in COBOL, one can't deny that
>laying out fixed width reports and moving blocks of decimal data between
>record layouts is quite easy in COBOL.

Absolutely.  I've always thought the Data Section in COBOL was conceptually
ahead of its time.  It makes you THINK about your data structures more
than, say "struct" in C.
-- 
Tim Roberts, timr at probo.com
Providenza & Boekelheide, Inc.



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