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Re: "US Government"

Or maybe it's too broken to fix and a clean beginning on a replacement is the way out.

The last time I was forced to debug COBOL I did it the easy way by inspecting the assembler emitted by the compiler.

And any language where

DIVIDE A INTO B GIVING C

and

DIVIDE A BY B GIVING C

produces the same code will never be self-documenting no matter how picky you are about variable names.