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		somat 7 months ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Mostly dead influential programming languages (202... "Significance: In terms of syntax and semantics we don’t see much of COBOL in modern computing." Would I be wrong in saying that SQL has what feels to me to be a very cobaly syntax. By which I mean, I know it is not directly related to cobal, But someone definitely looked at cobal's clunky attempt at natural language and said "that, I want that for my query language"

geophile 7 months ago | [–]

I agree completely. They were from the same era (COBOL is a few years older), and they do have that dweeby, earnest, natural language influence.

_glass 7 months ago | [–]

COBOL is very much alive as ABAP, the SAP scripting language.

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