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Discussion and correspondence
A study of COBOL portability
Computation Department, University of Manchester, Institute of Science and Technology, Sackville Street, Manchester, UK
This paper examines the difficulties which can be encountered when COBOL programs which have been successfully compiled and executed on one computer system are transferred to another. Progress already made in this field is reviewed and alternative approaches to the problem are considered.
Received October 1977.
* Computation Department, University of Manchester, Institute of Science and Technology, Sackville Street, Manchester M60 1QD