[COFF] COBOL.
Dave Horsfall
dave at horsfall.org
Tue Apr 14 20:06:19 AEST 2020
On Tue, 14 Apr 2020, Harald Arnesen wrote:
>> I have no plans to move to the US :-) To this day "ADD A TO B GIVING C
>> COMPUTATIONAL ROUNDED" still leaves me cold.
>
> No one I know (I programmed COBOL at a couple of jobs in the 80s) ever
> actually wrote that in COBOL. "COMPUTE C = A + B" is valid, and the
> "COMPUTATIONAL ROUNDED" is handled by USAGE and PICTURE clauses in the
> DATA DIVISION.
'Twas a joke circulating amongst the Computer Science lecturers at the
time (70s and all that); in fact, I think I first heard it from John Lions
himself...
> I still dabble with GNU Cobol now and then.
I am reminded of the following Buddhist koan:
And the Novice asked the Master:
Novice: Master, does EMACS have the Buddha nature?
Master: Well, I don't see why not; it bloody well has everything
else in it.
I gots lots of those things :-)
-- Dave
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