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Originally Posted by hflomberg
If Whatever-x-means Is Less Than 5000
Then
Compute Wherever-y-is Equal Whatever-x-means + 4
On Size-error
Perform Wake-up-the-programmer.
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I was just making fun of you, sorry. It's still extremely verbose, but COBOL certainly had a lot of cool features that made it extremely relevant especially for business use. MS could have avoided many of their Excel woes by programming that thing in COBOL. Or using a bit more careful planning when implementing their arithmetic ...