Still, for its time, until the rise (and fall) of
PL/I, COBOL had a
lot of interesting features that other languages didn't have--[...]
the PERFORM verb. Statements like EXAMINE/INSPECT, TALLYING or
REPLACING....
...ALTER...
:-)
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