Little bobby Fortran
Little bobby Fortran
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At least it's not COBOL.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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That's easy you just use the huge number of test cases to ensure against introducing new bugs.
/S
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10 print "Hell here" 20 goto 10
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That's how you talk?
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you shout in COBOL ;-)
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shout shout let it all out
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These are the things I can do without: =+-*/
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Imagine a cabal of COBOL programmers called Cobol or Co Ball
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Fuck it co., we ball.
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