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[–] [email protected] 61 points 4 months ago (11 children)
[–] [email protected] 26 points 4 months ago (8 children)

I learnt COBOL (I'm old) it's a very easy language, you basically talk, for instance to do c=a*b you write:

MULTIPLY A TO B GIVING C

and everything is tabbed, but in a good editor like emacs, it's done automatically pretty well.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 months ago (1 children)
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[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago

These are the things I can do without: =+-*/

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