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> Nobody wants to program in plain English. People have wanted that since at least as long as cobol has been a thing.
by tbrownaw 4y ago
> Nobody wants to program in plain English.
People have wanted that since at least as long as cobol has been a thing.
- xorcist 4y agoThere's a reason the languages that followed COBOL ditched the faux natural language part of the syntax. The language is practical for what it does, but the syntax is impractical. The same thing can be said about SQL.