On 07/10/12 13:54, Wayne Werner wrote:
fixed at birth, they have a horror of typing four characters when two
would do.
(I think this might apply to COBOL programmers, too.)
-Wayne
Oh no, COBOL programmers are the opposite. The more characters they type
the longer they live.... It's a matter of honour to the COBOL hacker to
type in at least a thousand lines of code per day! (That'd
be equivalent to about 100 if they were using Python!)
compare:
C programmer:
c = 0;
c += n;
COBOL PROGRAMMER:
MOVE 0 TO COUNTER,
ADD AMOUNT TO COUNTER
:-)
--
Alan G
Author of the Learn to Program web site
http://www.alan-g.me.uk/
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