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Path: ...!eternal-september.org!feeder3.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail 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 Organization: None to speak of Lines: 31 Message-ID: <87ed68bcsk.fsf@nosuchdomain.example.com> References: <v9t3ih$2e8ee$1@dont-email.me> <20240823112029.00002202@yahoo.com> <va9hep$riee$1@dont-email.me> <20240823115440.0000782b@yahoo.com> <vaahnh$22g6$1@gal.iecc.com> <8734mpejya.fsf@nosuchdomain.example.com> <50ca93d51e624487016555cae0c21feb@www.novabbs.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Injection-Date: Wed, 28 Aug 2024 22:41:32 +0200 (CEST) Injection-Info: dont-email.me; posting-host="1017e97994ee365b6a0a4b9b05fc05d0"; logging-data="3779170"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX196wg2DJJAAbyNivxVROhg7" User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Cancel-Lock: sha1:1zWUeR4IQNM5zE6QYlRRq//sqLM= sha1:ALpXoqoSuxrpun6IdzAYbCQXiUU= Bytes: 1899 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. [...] -- Keith Thompson (The_Other_Keith) Keith.S.Thompson+u@gmail.com void Void(void) { Void(); } /* The recursive call of the void */