Invisible wrote:
> http://www.columbia.edu/acis/history/fisk.pdf
> 
> Hmm, interesting. Some of the guys I went to uni with learned COBOL. All 
> they could tell me about it is "if you miss out a dot, you get an error 
> message 300 lines later". Sounds delightful...

It's more fun to spell the first word wrong. "Idnetification Division." Then 
you get at least two error lines on each input line, or three if it's 
actually a top-level statement.

-- 
Darren New, San Diego CA, USA (PST)
    Ada - the programming language trying to avoid
    you literally shooting yourself in the foot.

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