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Reading 100 lines of cobol and trying to discern wtf those lines are supposed to do is a day long task depending on annotation quality.
200million? You're fucked.
Imagine if it were written in perl though.
Cobol designers: lets make a language managers can read
Makes a language nobody can read
Oh to be a fly on the wall observing the creation of IBM COBOL and z/OS. Honestly considering a job doing it for the shits and giggles
I suppose compared to punchcards it was probably intuitive as fuck.
to be fair, 200 million lines in COBOL is the equivalent of 50 in any other language
honestly i don't think cobol is that bad, but maybe it's because i learned perl first
fuck perl
I don't know what any of this means but this is easy work. I'm built different.