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Re:Release of GnuCOBOL 2.2 by flavio81 on Thursday September 07, 2017 @08:16PM (#15196957)
> (thankfully, code printouts were already going out of fashion back in 1998, when I had that job. I can't for the life of me picture someone reading a printout today.

For me, the best way to review source code is to have it printed, where it is easy to annotate.

In fact i think i will buy me a printer at home for the very same purpose.

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Re:Release of GnuCOBOL 2.2 by 35bge57dtjku on Thursday September 07, 2017 @09:51PM (#15197336)
Make it a dot matrix printer that you can hear from 2 floors up.
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Re:Release of GnuCOBOL 2.2 by mikestew on Friday September 08, 2017 @01:45PM (#15202375)
I cast a +1 one-upmanship spell and invoke the line printer. Those things probably had lead ingots in the bottom so that they wouldn't walk across the room.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_1403

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Re:Release of GnuCOBOL 2.2 by athom on Thursday September 07, 2017 @10:16PM (#15197426)
Tractor feed, 11x17 fanfold greenbar FTW!
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Re:Release of GnuCOBOL 2.2 by the_af on Friday September 08, 2017 @01:20PM (#15202142)
It's easy to annotate code using modern interactive tools, and even easier to share these annotations with other people. Plus, modern tools also let you inspect the code, analyze usage, etc.
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