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Old 06-28-2013, 01:57 PM   #156
PeterT
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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.
APL That was the first computer language I learnt; Grade 8 in high school in Montreal )
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