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		Retra on May 1, 2018 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: It’s COBOL all the way down >When judged by standards of the day COBOL wasn’t bad. It was one of the first examples of a high-level language. Compared to LISP?

slx26 on May 1, 2018 [–]

> COBOL (Common Business Oriented Language)

You can't compare the languages like that, they were created to fill very different roles, and both were very successful at what they did.

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