listless@lemmy.cringecollective.io to Programmer Humor@lemmy.mlEnglish · 6 months agoMaybe some ALGOL 58 while we're at it too.lemmy.cringecollective.ioimagemessage-square15fedilinkarrow-up1214arrow-down18file-text
arrow-up1206arrow-down1imageMaybe some ALGOL 58 while we're at it too.lemmy.cringecollective.iolistless@lemmy.cringecollective.io to Programmer Humor@lemmy.mlEnglish · 6 months agomessage-square15fedilinkfile-text
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.cringecollective.io/post/9716 Maybe some ALGOL 58 while we’re at it too.
minus-squareEphera@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkarrow-up2·6 months agoBut didn’t they have to retrofit structured programming into COBOL? As in if-else, loops etc. didn’t exist in COBOL originally, it was all just GOTO. I guess, what I’m asking is: Does “not that bad” mean still pretty awful, but perhaps not as awful as one would expect for its age…?
But didn’t they have to retrofit structured programming into COBOL? As in if-else, loops etc. didn’t exist in COBOL originally, it was all just GOTO.
I guess, what I’m asking is: Does “not that bad” mean still pretty awful, but perhaps not as awful as one would expect for its age…?