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[–] DmMacniel@feddit.org 1 points 1 year ago (2 children)
[–] ICastFist@programming.dev 1 points 1 year ago

Imagine a cabal of COBOL programmers called Cobol or Co Ball

[–] Frederic@beehaw.org 0 points 1 year ago (1 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.

[–] docAvid@midwest.social 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] Frederic@beehaw.org 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] vfreire85@lemmy.ml 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] Zink@programming.dev 1 points 1 year ago

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