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The use of FORTRAN in subroutines with COBOL main programs

By Zalman A. Shavell
Communications of the ACM, April 1965, Vol. 8 No. 4, Pages 221-223
10.1145/363831.364872
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By using the proper COBOL coding techniques and accounting for differences in storage allocation and library routines between the two languages, it is possible to write FORTRAN IV subroutines that may be called from COBOL main programs. Such a technique enables the programmer to take advantage of the most useful properties of each language while minimizing their respective disadvantages.

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