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Animats • 10/01/2024 • 4 replies • view on HN

Nobody writes

    MULTIPLY A BY B GIVING C ON SIZE ERROR STOP RUN.
any more.

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graypegg • 10/01/2024

I mean, if you squint your eyes a bit, that could be SQL! So even if it's not COBOL, there's people out there writing in a vaguely english business programming language.

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Smar • 10/01/2024

> print food if tasty?

Ruby is nice.

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analog31 • 10/02/2024

Man that's almost like Hypercard.

kernal • 10/02/2024

>Nobody writes MULTIPLY A BY B GIVING C ON SIZE ERROR STOP RUN.

You had me at MULTIPLY A BY B