[Info-vax] COBOL Is Obsolete (was Re: Any stronger versions of the LMF planned ?)

[Lawrence D’Oliveiro]

On Thursday, September 23, 2021 at 5:27:01 AM UTC+12, Simon Clubley wrote:
> On 2021-09-22, Dave Froble <da... 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.

Unfortunately, COBOL manages to increase your expenditure of reading time as well...