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Originally Posted by DNSB
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.
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APL

That was the first computer language I learnt; Grade 8 in high school in Montreal )