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Posted by Wayne on 12/28/05 20:20
On Mon, 26 Dec 2005 10:46:43 -0000, "Tony Marston"
<tony@NOSPAM.demon.co.uk> wrote:
>Yes they do, it's called *communication*. A computer language is used so
>that a human can tell a computer what instructions to follow. That is why
>COBOL was constructed around subjects, verbs, predicates, sentences and
>paragraphs.
And COBOL was forever deemed a bad idea. Now we have languages with
curly-braces, semi-colons, arthimentic operators all mixed in, etc.
And we consider that an improvement.
If programming languages were like English, statements would end with
period instead of a semi-colon.
>Having been in IT for over 30 years I have noticed that computer languages
>and operating systems evolve over time as well.
Given that you seem to have only programmed in dinosaur languages, I
find this hard to believe.
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