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From: Niklas Holsti <niklas.holsti@tidorum.invalid>
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Subject: Re: fyi, very interesting Ada paper OOP vs. Readability
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On 12-05-10 19:06 , Georg Bauhaus wrote:
> On 10.05.12 16:47, Nasser M. Abbasi wrote:
>
>> On the left is the least verbose, and on the right is
>> the most verbose. Feel free to edit and add/adjust as
>> you feel. ofcourse this is all subjective and for fun.
>>
>>
>> perl   Matlab    pascal PLI  f77    f95  Java cobol
>> |       |         |      |    |      |     |    |
>> <-----------------------+------------------------>
>>   |     |    |       |            |     |    |
>>   |     c  scala    c++         SNOBOL HTML Ada
>>   |
>> Mathematica
>
> Cute! In all fairness, though, how can this Cobol
> statement count as verbose?
>
>    ADD a b c  TO  d e f  GIVING  g h i
>
> I find this one-liner highly readable, too.

And how do you read it? I don't remember such an ADD format, with more 
than one identifier between "to" and "giving", and it does not appear in 
the OpenCOBOL Programmer's Guide at
http://opencobol.add1tocobol.com/OpenCOBOL%20Programmers%20Guide.pdf.

Just splitting hairs, of course...

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Niklas Holsti
Tidorum Ltd
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