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Starting work in Japan as a lowly new graduate - did someone say COBOL?
From Wikipedia’s COBOL entry:
Critics have argued that COBOL’s syntax serves mainly to increase the size of programs, at the expense of developing the thinking process needed for software development. In his letter to an editor in 1975 titled “How do we tell truths that might hurt?”, computer scientist and Turing Award [...]
