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[–] [email protected] 21 points 3 months ago (3 children)

I learnt COBOL (I'm old) it's a very easy language, you basically talk, for instance to do c=a*b you write:

MULTIPLY A TO B GIVING C

and everything is tabbed, but in a good editor like emacs, it's done automatically pretty well.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

I was looking into learning COBOL some years ago, because i found that verbosity interesting.

And it seemed like there's not many libs and toolboxes out there, compared to the major languages that has libs for everything, so I couldn't really use it for small projects.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 3 months ago (1 children)

The issue with COBOL surely isn‘t about the language itself. The real challenge will be to decipher the spaghetti code that was created at a company in the last sixty or so years. And then to dare changing something without breaking the program as a whole.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 months ago

That's easy you just use the huge number of test cases to ensure against introducing new bugs.

/S

[–] [email protected] 10 points 3 months ago
10 print "Hell here"
20 goto 10
[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago

These are the things I can do without: =+-*/