[Info-vax] COBOL Is Obsolete (was Re: Any stronger versions of the LMF planned ?)

[Simon Clubley]

On 2021-09-22, Dave Froble <davef at tsoft-inc.com> wrote:
>
> I'm not a fan of Cobol, mostly because of all the required typing.  So 
> verbose.  But once done, it does a decent job.
>

You write the code once, but read it many times.

Code should be written to be readable, not to save you a bit of
typing time.

Simon.

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