17 Jan
2021
17 Jan
'21
7:11 a.m.
On Sat, Jan 16, 2021, 6:09 PM Larry McVoy <lm(a)mcvoy.com> wrote:
On Sun, Jan 17, 2021 at 12:07:14PM +1100, Dave
Horsfall wrote:
ROUNDED".
I am _so_ glad I never had to learn COBOL. I appreciate terseness, COBOL
is not that.
Object oriented COBOL never took off because "ADD 1 TO COBOL GIVING COBOL."
didn't roll off the tongue.
Warner
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On Fri, 8 Jan 2021, Greg 'groggy' Lehey
wrote:
>Heh. In 1973 I was once required to abandon assembler, the language of
>Real Programmers, and write a program in COBOL (in fact, a database
front
end to
COBOL). I took revenge in the label names. From
http://www.lemis.com/grog/src/GOPU
My favourite COBOL statement is "ADD A TO B GIVING C COMPUTATIONAL COFF mailing list
COFF(a)minnie.tuhs.org
https://minnie.tuhs.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/coff