[Tutor] Why lambda could be considered evil

[Magnus Lycka]

At 01:35 2002-08-29 +0200, Scot W. Stevenson wrote:
> > and I agree they are not immediaely intuitive. OTOH look
> > at COBOL which takes natural language to the other extreme:
> >
> > X =3D X PLUS 1
>
>Yes. Er. Well. I guess that explains why it is such a popular language,
>doesn't it...

Actually, I thought the correct syntax for that would be

ADD 1 TO X
or
COMPUTE X =3D X + 1

For an example of COBOL see http://99-bottles-of-beer.ls-la.net/c.html#Cobol


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