What is tne need to use sub programs in Cobol?

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What is tne need to use sub programs in Cobol?..

Answer / chowdary

reusabulity of code and coding time will be reduced

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What is tne need to use sub programs in Cobol?..

Answer / vinay sonar

subprogram is used so that many programs can be merged into
single programs.also it reduces the required storage space
and no need to decleare variables again

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What is tne need to use sub programs in Cobol?..

Answer / naresh

reusability...........and subprogram can be used number of
times and call subprogram using 'call'
statement............inthis both supprogram and mainprogram
have same structure.........

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