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Originally Posted by moffattm
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 just found that COBOL was horribly wordy. Something that took one line in APL and 10 lines in Waterloo Fortran took 2 pages in COBOL. Admittedly, the APL code was write only, the Fortran code took quite a few comments while the COBOL code was pretty easy to follow without comments.
For columns, there was the day I discovered that JCL did not see anything past the 80th column. No warnings, just characters that went directly to the bit bucket. Definitely, a WTF moment.
Hmmm... what else? Forth was a learning experience.
Regards,
David