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One advantage of Cobol

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    I remember a Cobol program that had an interesting set of variable names. It wasn't until I read the following line that it all came together... Perform sex thru night varying position from top to bottom until tired out There are so few computer languages these days that allow us to combine literature and IT.

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      I remember a Cobol program that had an interesting set of variable names. It wasn't until I read the following line that it all came together... Perform sex thru night varying position from top to bottom until tired out There are so few computer languages these days that allow us to combine literature and IT.

      Paul

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      Whenever I have trouble sleeping at night I start reading a COBOL text book. Usually does the trick in about 5 sentences. Would that be a "feature" of the language or the textbook? Phil

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        I remember a Cobol program that had an interesting set of variable names. It wasn't until I read the following line that it all came together... Perform sex thru night varying position from top to bottom until tired out There are so few computer languages these days that allow us to combine literature and IT.

        Paul

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        Michael Hendrickx
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        :laugh: :laugh: superb!

        www.code.ae

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          I remember a Cobol program that had an interesting set of variable names. It wasn't until I read the following line that it all came together... Perform sex thru night varying position from top to bottom until tired out There are so few computer languages these days that allow us to combine literature and IT.

          Paul

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          COBOL was my first pro language, and I used to take great joy in writing code in "English" (the 88 lines were the thing; they were more-or-less equivalent to enumerations, but they msde it possible to write code in linguistically-parseable sentences). And it's not a dead language; my COBOL '99 and ME are as popular as ever.

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