ElCanut@jlai.lu to Programmer Humor@lemmy.ml · 7 months agoLittle bobby Fortranjlai.luexternal-linkmessage-square57fedilinkarrow-up139arrow-down10
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minus-squarePapamousse@beehaw.orglinkfedilinkarrow-up0·7 months agoI 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.
minus-squareDoc Avid Mornington@midwest.sociallinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·7 months agoThat’s how you talk?
minus-squareZink@programming.devlinkfedilinkarrow-up1·7 months agoThese are the things I can do without: =±*/
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.
That’s how you talk?
you shout in COBOL ;-)
shout shout let it all out
These are the things I can do without: =±*/