On Sun, Jan 17, 2021 at 12:07:14PM +1100, Dave Horsfall wrote:
> 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 ROUNDED".

I am _so_ glad I never had to learn COBOL.  I appreciate terseness, COBOL
is not that.

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