Re: COBOL, Article on new mainframe use

In article <20240823115440.0000782b@yahoo.com>, already5chosen@yahoo.com
(Michael S) wrote:

I simply don't see how mere syntax difference between COBOL and
Pascal, which by itself is not particularly terse or particularly
expressive, could alone account for such massive reduction in the
size of the program text.

COBOL is exceptionally verbose and un-expressive. It makes elementary
logic very long-winded. I don't think it was specifically designed to
make simple programming tasks look like vast intellectual feats to
managers who don't understand what their staff are doing, but it does
that job quite well.

John