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From: "Alex Oren" <alexo@bigfoot.com>
Newsgroups: nu.kanga.list.mud-dev
Date: Sun, 01 Mar 1998 10:52:28 GMT
References: [1] [2] [3] <-newest
Organization: Kanga.Nu
On Fri, 27 Feb 1998 00:03:41 PST8PDT, Caliban Tiresias Darklock wrote:
} On 08:41 PM 2/26/98 +0000, I personally witnessed Jon A. Lambert jumping up
} to say:
} >
} >Typically you
} >open up a COBOL source file to maintain, find it was created circa
} >1970-ish, and 50 different hands have touched and mangled it all with
} >their own unique style of coding. Generally speaking, it makes most
} >mud code look well-written. :)
}
} On the other hand, you could *read* COBOL. You didn't have monstrosities
} like...
}
} a=c.split('&'); for(i=0;i<a.length;i++) { a[i]=a[i].split(':');
} this[a[i][0]]=unescape(a[i][1]); }
}
} Not too terribly complex if you know C++, but you get the idea. ;)
Corollary:
You can write FORTRAN code in any programming language.
--
Have fun,
Alex.