• Papamousse@beehaw.org
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      6 months ago

      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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        6 months ago

        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.