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When we transitioned from doing algorithm development in Fortran to C,
one of our more senior alg developers finally acquiesced and decided he
could live with using C when he found the GOTO statement.

Absolutely brilliant algorithm developer, you just didn't want to have to
be the one who had to figure out what his code was doing.


Back in the early days, I had at least one job that required writing
Cobol programs. I was told my Cobol looked like Fortran :-).
Apparently most people didn't even know Cobol had a COMPUTE statement.

BTW, I know COBOL gets a lot of bad press, but it's still one of the
easiest languages to get a novice producing working code. Excepting
RPG, of course.

And I do have fond memories of the "MOVE CORRESPONDING" statement.

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