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As someone who worked on a 35 million loc cobol and jcl system for several years in the late 90's, I don't find this to be funny at all. Cobol was purported to be readable with english language like syntax to make it more understandable. Giving gems such as: MULTIPLY TAX-RATE OF STATE(43) BY BALANCE GIVING SALES-TAX-AMOUNT. Note the period is sigificant.
Could I now get you to criticize eating healthy, please? :)
Cool language! I wish there was more standard interpreter support though. Everyone seems to be using a different flavor, which yields different results depending on where the code runs.
As someone who worked on a 35 million loc cobol and jcl system for several years in the late 90's, I don't find this to be funny at all. Cobol was purported to be readable with english language like syntax to make it more understandable. Giving gems such as: MULTIPLY TAX-RATE OF STATE(43) BY BALANCE GIVING SALES-TAX-AMOUNT. Note the period is sigificant.
I hear the successor language is much better. It's called ADD 1 TO COBOL GIVING COBOL.
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Using English you can set your chatbots character, personality and purpose.
Will it be a helpful assistant like ChatGPT, or be a digital reincarnation of some historical character? Both can be set up in plan english and the LLM will follow your instructions.
As someone who worked on a 35 million loc cobol and jcl system for several years in the late 90's, I don't find this to be funny at all. Cobol was purported to be readable with english language like syntax to make it more understandable. Giving gems such as: MULTIPLY TAX-RATE OF STATE(43) BY BALANCE GIVING SALES-TAX-AMOUNT. Note the period is sigificant.
I hear the successor language is much better. It's called ADD 1 TO COBOL GIVING COBOL.
Cool language! I wish there was more standard interpreter support though. Everyone seems to be using a different flavor, which yields different results depending on where the code runs.
This is peak 'nerd' humor. Worse than dad jokes.