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Bryce Martin wrote:
Well, I have never programmed cobol. But that is very readable.
That was the primary consideration when COBOL was first designed: source
code had to be extremely readable, even to the completely
non-computer-literate. Which is why it was extremely verbose, and why
COBOL would have:
SUBTRACT COUPON-CREDIT FROM INVOICE-TOTAL.
where FORTRAN would instead have:
ITOTAL = ITOTAL - CCRED
and primitive BASIC would have:
120 LET T = T - C
and RPG would have (with spacing adjusted to fit the dialect):
SUB CCRED ITOTAL
--
JHHL
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