Rich kids are into COBOL

[Mike Stein]

Indeed; given the choice I think I'd much rather
modify an old file-handling report-printing
business program written in COBOL than most other
languages...

I mean, what could be simpler and more
self-documenting:

http://www.google.com/doodles/grace-hoppers-107th-birthday

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----- Original Message ----- 
From: "John Foust" <jfoust at threedee.com>
To: <cctalk at classiccmp.org>
Sent: Tuesday, February 17, 2015 4:29 PM
Subject: Re: Rich kids are into COBOL


> At 01:02 PM 2/17/2015, Ethan Dicks wrote:
>>What I read horrified me.  How could anything be
>>that mind-crushingly
>>verbose?
>
> As compared to purposefully terse C one-liners?
> :-)
>
> - John
>
>