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4. I took two semesters of COBOL in college in 1991-92
Tue Sep 25, 2018, 09:37 PM
Sep 2018

It is a clumsy language but is needed for old mainframes. It is a cousin to Assembly language. In school, we wrote a sort program that took about 30 lines of code in COBOL and we did it in 5 lines in C++.

Much of the first 15-20 lines are cumbersome declarations and such. Your first module would come after that. It's not very efficient but is the best for the old system.

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