On 01/07/21 17:56, Stuart Remphrey wrote (in part):
> > Dave, who's kept his COBOL knowledge a secret in every job
>
> Indeed! [...]; but especially COBOL: apart from everything else, too
> much like writing a novel to get anything done.
As long as we are bashing COBOL, I recall that someone -- name forgotten
-- wrote a parody that contained statements such as "Verily, let the
noble variable N be assigned the value known as one".

N.