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Off topic but I read #2 and I can't for the life of me think of why he would consider Cobol a bad language, perhaps he has no personal experience with it.
by OldSchoolJohnny 10y ago
Off topic but I read #2 and I can't for the life of me think of why he would consider Cobol a bad language, perhaps he has no personal experience with it.
- adamnemecek 10y agoThere are some mentions here http://paulgraham.com/popular.html http://paulgraham.com/popular.html "It is a mistake to try to baby the user with long-winded expressions that are meant to resemble English. Cobol is notorious for this flaw. A hacker would consider being asked to write."