[Info-vax] Long uptime cut short by Hurricane Sandy

[Paul Sture]

In article <an0jjrFduj7U1 at mid.individual.net>,
 billg999 at cs.uofs.edu (Bill Gunshannon) wrote:

> I've seen more comments in COBOL than in Ada.  Does that make COBOL a
> better language for writing an F16 Flight Control System?

The problem I always found with COBOL is that you cannot put comments at 
the end of a line of code.  Devoting whole lines to comments can split 
code which logically lies together.

Or you write an essay at the beginning of the code.  There are times 
when a couple of words at the end of a line need a whole sentence to 
describe when the comment is in a separate place.

-- 
Paul Sture