29 Dec
2017
29 Dec
'17
11:58 p.m.
'FUNCTION: To save the programmer effort by automatically incorporating
library subroutines into the source
program.'in Cobol whole 'functions' (subroutines) and even code
snipplets are 'copied' into the main source file by the copy statement.
That's different to preprocessor macros, -definitions, -literals and, since ansi
c, function prototypes.