17 Jan
2021
17 Jan
'21
7:09 a.m.
On Sun, Jan 17, 2021 at 12:07:14PM +1100, Dave Horsfall wrote:
On Fri, 8 Jan 2021, Greg 'groggy' Lehey
wrote:
I am _so_ glad I never had to learn COBOL. I appreciate terseness, COBOL
is not that.
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".