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Re:Modern Pascal is still in the race (2022) by KerrAvon on Wednesday October 11, 2023 @02:39PM (#37848523)
I was under the impression that COBOL's English syntax was intended to be a more human-readable approach, not so much a workaround for character set limitations.
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Re:Modern Pascal is still in the race (2022) by pavlov on Wednesday October 11, 2023 @04:42PM (#37850002)
Maybe both? COBOL predates the first draft of ASCII by several years. Character sets were far from standardized in those days.
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Re:Modern Pascal is still in the race (2022) by noizejoy on Wednesday October 11, 2023 @07:10PM (#37851562)
Lots (most?) of classic COBOL used EBCDIC[0]

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EBCDIC

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