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Re:Ask HN: Has anyone here learned COBOL for fun? How did it... by sreeramvenkat on Thursday September 14, 2023 @03:29AM (#37506032)
IIRC it doesn't have a stack. So all variables are globals. There is no way to call a function with a parameter - to be accurate, there are only subroutines; no functions.
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