Subj : Re: curve for verbosity in a language
To   : comp.programming
From : Jon Harrop
Date : Tue Aug 02 2005 07:49 pm

Jeff Lanam wrote:
> COBOL appears at first to be verbose; there's a fair amount of
> required syntax, and the conventions adopted over the years discourage
> dense packing of language elements in the program.  However, if you
> look at the power of statements like INSPECT, STRING, or UNSTRING, or
> the kinds of data transformation implicit in the MOVE statement,
> you'll see operations that would take many lines of code in other
> languages.

Would you be so kind as to explain what these things do, so we can have a go
at translating them?

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Dr Jon D Harrop, Flying Frog Consultancy
http://www.ffconsultancy.com

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