Cobol vs Perl syntax (was Re: Why aren't we all speaking LISP now?)

[Alex Martelli]

"Andy Todd" <atodd at spam.free.email.com> wrote in message
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> The only programming course I took during my degree course was
Introduction
> to COBOL (for *$%@@'s sake!) and even then we had to submit all of our

I'm pretty sure in Cobol it's:

    for SWEAR AND CURSE PROFUSELY GIVING SOME SATISFACTION's sake

so why are you using Perl's syntax for it instead?


Alex