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minus-squareAqarius@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up1·6 months agoPeople thought COBOL would let managers write code.
minus-squareAqarius@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up1·6 months agoIt’s by design very verbose and “English”-like, like instead of x=y*z it would go “MULTIPLY y BY z GIVING x”, the idea was that it would read almost like natural language, so that non-tech staff could understand it.
minus-squareSubArcticTundra@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkarrow-up1·6 months agoExcept that it’s not the syntax that makes programming hard, it’s the thought process, right?
People thought COBOL would let managers write code.
What.
It’s by design very verbose and “English”-like, like instead of x=y*z it would go “MULTIPLY y BY z GIVING x”, the idea was that it would read almost like natural language, so that non-tech staff could understand it.
Except that it’s not the syntax that makes programming hard, it’s the thought process, right?