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Re:The Beauty of COBOL (2018) by DrScump on Friday October 18, 2019 @02:32AM (#21289138) 

  how much uglier real-world code is
One of my first projects in COBOL was to complete a rewrite, using structured programming, of a report writer that dated back into the 1960s. If you think COBOL is hard to follow, imagine COBOL code laden with gotos and older than the 1968 standard.
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Re:The Beauty of COBOL (2018) by Starwatcher2001 on Friday October 18, 2019 @11:07AM (#21292002)
Yeah, that sounds fun. Did that have the evil "alter" statement, which caused even more spaghetti with gotos?
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Re:The Beauty of COBOL (2018) by DrScump on Thursday October 24, 2019 @06:18PM (#21349774)
I think ALTER usage was formally disallowed.
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