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From: Keith Thompson <Keith.S.Thompson+u@gmail.com>
Newsgroups: comp.arch
Subject: Re: COBOL, Article on new mainframe use
Date: Wed, 28 Aug 2024 13:41:31 -0700
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mitchalsup@aol.com (MitchAlsup1) writes:
> On Tue, 27 Aug 2024 21:26:21 +0000, Keith Thompson wrote:
>> John Levine <johnl@taugh.com> writes:
>> [...]
>>> COBOL is by design, really really verbose, e.g. what we would write as
>>>
>>>   tg = kb + ro
>>>
>>> is
>>>
>>>    ADD KICK-BACK TO RAKE-OFF GIVING TOTAL-GRAFT.
>> [...]
>>
>> Or:
>>     COMPUTE TOTAL-GRAPH = KICK-BACK + RAKE-OFF
>
> Shouldn't that be::
>
>      COMPUTE TOTAL-GRAFT = ICK-BACK + RAKE-OFF

I think you meant (as I did) :

    COMPUTE TOTAL-GRAFT = KICK-BACK + RAKE-OFF

Every typo correction must include at least one additional typo.

[...]

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Keith Thompson (The_Other_Keith) Keith.S.Thompson+u@gmail.com
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