Hello Tibor, [...] > P.S. I do agree with your Java remark; my favourite example is > anonymous functions:
Myself, with some white hairs in my beard, Java verbosity reminds me this so much: 001000$control optimize 001100 identification division. 001200 program-id. 001300 staglist. 001400 author. 001500 Ferran Jorba. 001600 installation. 001700 UAB. 001800 date-written. 001900 January 1991. 002000 Rewritten and translated into English, August, 1992. 002100 Change default-tags, 31 Jan 1994 002200 remarks. 002300 This program takes the output of MARC records 002400 from MARCPRT or HOLDPRT and reformats the output 002500 to one physical record per field or tag, for wide- 002600 paper printer (132 chars). 002700 The output record consists on the control number 002800 (BIB-ID, AUTH-ID or HOLDINGS-ID), level information, 002900 tag number, indicators and the textual data. 003000 It also allows the selection of a the set of tags 003100 to be printed. 003200 003300 003400 environment division. 003500 003600 configuration section. 003700 003800 source-computer. 003900 HP-3000. 004000 object-computer. 004100 HP-3000 sequence is hpascii. 004200 004300 special-names. 004400 hpascii is standard-1. etc..., before the meat begins. For me, Java is the new Cobol, necktie included ;-( Ferran
