What makes COBOL such a hated language?
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What makes COBOL such a hated language?
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Re: What makes COBOL such a hated language?
#2I wrote a production COBOL program in 1967. I swore that I would never write another one. So far I've managed to avoid it.
Re: What makes COBOL such a hated language?
#3They missed COBOL's fixed-point math, which is unmatched in any other language and makes accounting a breeze and its fixed-length strings, which significantly enhances performance and make green screen/HTML layout easy.