A former co-worker left us with thousands of lines of code looking like this. This is more a curiosity, since I rewrote everything he did in less obscure languages :-)
Nevertheless I'm curious. Is this meta-code or an actual language?
DATA DIVISION.
WORKING-STORAGE SECTION.
78 dialog-system VALUE "DIV".
01 Display-Error.
03 Display-Error-No PIC 9(4) comp-5.
03 Display-Details-1 PIC 9(4) comp-5.
03 Display-Details-2 PIC 9(4) comp-5.
05 Display-Details-3 PIC 9(4) comp-5.
COPY "DS-CNTRL.MF".
COPY "ThisApp.txt".
PROCEDURE DIVISION.
*---------------------------------------------------------------*
Main-Process SECTION.
PERFORM Program-Initialize
PERFORM Program-Body UNTIL EXIT-FLAG-TRUE
PERFORM Program-Terminate
.
*---------------------------------------------------------------*
Program-Initialize SECTION.
INITIALIZE Ds-Control-Block
INITIALIZE Data-block
MOVE Data-block-version-no
TO Ds-Data-Block-Version-No
MOVE Version-no TO Ds-Version-No
MOVE Ds-New-Set TO Ds-Control
MOVE "MyApp" TO Ds-Set-Name
.
*---------------------------------------------------------------*
Program-Body SECTION.
PERFORM Call-Dialog-System
.
*---------------------------------------------------------------*
Program-Terminate SECTION.
STOP RUN
.
*---------------------------------------------------------------*
Call-Dialog-System SECTION.
CALL dialog-system USING Ds-Control-Block,
Data-Block
IF NOT Ds-No-Error
MOVE Ds-System-Error TO Display-error
DISPLAY "DS ERROR NO: " Display-error-no
DISPLAY "Error Details(1) : " Display-Details-1
DISPLAY "Error Details(2) : " Display-Details-2
DISPLAY "Error Details(3) : " Display-Details-3
PERFORM Program-Terminate
END-IF
That's COBOL! http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cobol
Sadly I knew it was COBOL instantly, thanks to the useless college courses I took on it in 2001. Even more sadly this is literally the first time I used those skills.
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