Board:   [DoveNet] Unix/Linux
Subject: Re: What Is Unix? (was: H
From:    Mortar
Date:    Thu Jan 15, 2026 15:34

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  Re: Re: What Is Unix? (was: H
  By: MIKE POWELL to ANTHK on Wed Jan 14 2026 08:46:00

 > As COBOL reads a lot like english, I found it easy to pick up.  You do have
 > to remember to define all of your variables in working storage...

COBOL was my favorite language.  I learned it in the mid-'70s using an IBM 370/158; COBOL 74 was the dialect.  Yeah, you had to watch that Data Division, but the Procedure Div. could be even more treacherous.  One mis-placed special character can generate a multitude of error msgs.  In fact we used to hold contests (unofficially, of course) on who could generate the most.  I never cameclose to the record, which I believe was over 200 errors, just because a comma was used instead of a period, I forget how.

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