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Old 06-28-2013, 08:57 AM   #153
Ken Maltby
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Originally Posted by moffattm View Post
And what, may I ask, is wrong with COBOL? I thought it was pretty cool how you could say things like "ADD YEARS TO AGE" rather than something like "age = age + years" which other languages used.

One language that I really struggled with was RPG; getting everything in the right column was always a chore.
I also remember the COBOL/Fortran combo with some fondness, but not a spilled card deck, that also haunts those memories. (Talk about adding years...)

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