[Tutor] Through a glass, darkly: the datetime module

[Alan Gauld]

On 07/10/12 13:54, Wayne Werner wrote:

>> fixed at birth, they have a horror of typing four characters when two
>> would do.
>
> (I think this might apply to COBOL programmers, too.)
> -Wayne


Oh no, COBOL programmers are the opposite. The more characters they type 
the longer they live.... It's a matter of honour to the COBOL hacker to 
type in at least a thousand lines of code per day! (That'd
be equivalent to about 100 if they were using Python!)

compare:

C programmer:

c = 0;
c += n;

COBOL PROGRAMMER:

MOVE 0 TO COUNTER,
ADD AMOUNT TO COUNTER

:-)


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