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COBOL hackers do it by committee.
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COBOL programmers do it with bugs.
Ada programmers do it by committee.
COBOL programmers do it very slow.
Sorry. I don't "do" COBOL.
I'm a programmer, I don't do COBOL.
COBOL: /koh'bol/ [COmmon Business-Oriented Language] n.
(Synonymous with {evil}.) A weak, verbose, and flabby language used by {card walloper}s to do boring mindless things on {dinosaur} mainframes....
COBOL /koh'bol/ n. [COmmon Business-Oriented Language] (Synonymous with evil.
) A weak, verbose, and flabby language used by card wallopers to do boring mindless things on dinosaur mainframes....
What is a committee? A group of the unwilling, picked from the unfit, to do the unnecessary.
HARKNESS...
Quote #24 As an appointed member of the three man committee on the long range future of COBOL
which committee was never disbanded, so I assume it still exists and which also never met, I have a few comments....