[Info-vax] COBOL Is Obsolete (was Re: Any stronger versions of the LMF planned ?)

[Arne Vajhøj]

On 9/22/2021 1:27 PM, Simon Clubley wrote:
> 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.

True.

But readability and verbosity does not always follow.

Some times verbosity help explain what the code does.

But other times verbosity just distracts from what the
code does by forcing the reader to find the relevant
info among a lot of boilerplate stuff.

Arne