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A comment on Ask HN: How would a programming language look if designed by non-programmer.

Re:Ask HN: How would a programming language look if designed... by NinjaViking on Friday December 17, 2021 @06:46AM (#29590927)
COBOL was supposed to be just that. It is not considered a nice or beautiful language generally.
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Re:Ask HN: How would a programming language look if designed... by mkl on Friday December 17, 2021 @07:21AM (#29591221)
COBOL was definitely designed by programmers, not non-programmers. It was sort of aimed at non-programmers, but that was mostly marketing I think.
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Re:Ask HN: How would a programming language look if designed... by cube00 on Friday December 17, 2021 @06:56AM (#29591019)
Only global scope sounds like a nightmare.
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