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Re:Ask HN: Has anyone here learned COBOL for fun? How did it... by nobozo on Wednesday September 13, 2023 @09:06PM (#37503648)
One thing I believe was true in the COBOL+JCL world of the 1980s is that you couldn't write a program that would read the name of a file, and then open that file. All files to be accessed had to be specified statically with JCL.

Am I remembering correctly?

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