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Re:Learning COBOL: A Journey for the Modern Programmer by p_l on Wednesday April 07, 2021 @03:59PM (#26730343)
And gave the main reason as "because we tried to not make a language so hard, the requirements evolved it into one in form of exceptions rather than design"
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Re:Learning COBOL: A Journey for the Modern Programmer by rbanffy on Thursday April 08, 2021 @04:24AM (#26736366)
I think a lot of the pain from Terraform could have been avoided had they known of JCLs cruel fate.
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