Rich kids are into COBOL

[Shawn Gordon]

so, what is easier to read and write?

IF STRING1 = STRING2

or

if !(strncmp(string1,string2,10) {

I've rewritten cobol into C a few times when I was a big enthusiast of C 
and the C code was longer and harder to maintain.


On 2/17/2015 1:29 PM, John Foust wrote:
> At 01:02 PM 2/17/2015, Ethan Dicks wrote:
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>> What I read horrified me.  How could anything be that mind-crushingly
>> verbose?
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> As compared to purposefully terse C one-liners?  :-)
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> - John
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