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I was under the impression that COBOL's English syntax was intended to be a more human-readable approach, not so much a workaround for character set limitations
by KerrAvon 3y ago
I was under the impression that COBOL's English syntax was intended to be a more human-readable approach, not so much a workaround for character set limitations.
- pavlov 3y agoMaybe both? COBOL predates the first draft of ASCII by several years. Character sets were far from standardized in those days.
- noizejoy 3y agoLots (most?) of classic COBOL used EBCDIC[0] [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EBCDIC https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EBCDIC
- andomizczzz662 3y ago[dead]