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minus-squareAqarius@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up95·11 days agoPeople thought COBOL would let managers write code.
minus-squareAqarius@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up56·10 days agoIt’s by design very verbose and “English”-like, like instead of x=y*z it would go “MULTIPLY y BY z GIVING x”, the idea was that it would read almost like natural language, so that non-tech staff could understand it.
People thought COBOL would let managers write code.
What.
It’s by design very verbose and “English”-like, like instead of x=y*z it would go “MULTIPLY y BY z GIVING x”, the idea was that it would read almost like natural language, so that non-tech staff could understand it.