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minus-squarePapamousse@beehaw.orglinkfedilinkarrow-up1·4 months agoI 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.
minus-squareDoc Avid Mornington@midwest.sociallinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·4 months agoThat’s how you talk?
minus-squareI Cast Fist@programming.devlinkfedilinkarrow-up1·4 months agoImagine a cabal of COBOL programmers called Cobol or Co Ball
At least it’s not COBOL.
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.
That’s how you talk?
Imagine a cabal of COBOL programmers called Cobol or Co Ball