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tmoran@acm.org wrote:
> kind of manager.  He had brought home a COBOL program one of his people had
> written and asked for help figuring out what it did.  It was easy to teach
> him enough in an afternoon that he could follow (reasonable) code and tell

OTOH, someone once (a joke, I think) said:

   COBOL was invented so that managers could read programs.
   Instead, it only proved that managers do not read programs.

-- 
Wes Groleau
    "Lewis's case for the existence of God is fallacious."
"You mean like circular reasoning?"
    "He believes in God.  Therefore, he's fallacious."