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by NinjaViking 1645 days ago
COBOL was supposed to be just that. It is not considered a nice or beautiful language generally.
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mkl 1645 days ago
COBOL was definitely designed by programmers, not non-programmers. It was sort of aimed at non-programmers, but that was mostly marketing I think.
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cube00 1645 days ago
Only global scope sounds like a nightmare.
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