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I don't think COBOL's dream was to generate enormous amounts of assembly code that users would then have to maintain (in assembly!) and producing differently wr

by ptx 3y ago

I don't think COBOL's dream was to generate enormous amounts of assembly code that users would then have to maintain (in assembly!) and producing differently wrong results every time you ran it.

bitwize 3y ago
It may not have been the dream, but the reality is many COBOL systems have been binary-patched to fix issues so many times that the original source may not be a useful guide to how the thing actually works.
- tra3 3y ago
  Can you share any more info on this?