This one of the main things about cobol people don't understand; all memory is statically allocated, there is no dynamic memory allocation. Well there can be, b

This one of the main things about cobol people don't understand; all memory is statically allocated, there is no dynamic memory allocation. Well there can be, but not generally. No call stack, no heap. In reality, cobol, the 85 standard and before was really very primitive. The new standards have changed this obviously, but no one uses those. The terminology this person would have understood is "working storage".