CHAPTER 20 ----- IDENTIFICATION DIVISION

RULE 3 - Omit the DATE-COMPILED paragraph from the program. Replace other IDENTIFICATION DIVISION paragraphs with appropriate comments.

Forty-nine out of fifty programs continued to use the various IDENTIFICATION DIVISION paragraphs. This is not surprising, since they were only marked as "obsolete" in the COBOL-85 standards, which are not yet implemented in the compiler currently available to these programmers. Most also coded the DATE-COMPILED paragraph, and two even coded an entry in this paragraph, even though the purpose of the paragraph is for the compiler to place the entry there.

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