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Maybe some ALGOL 58 while we're at it too.

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[-] Ephera@lemmy.ml 2 points 2 years ago

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...?

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