Re: If you were inventing CoBOL...

From: Robert Wagner (robert_at_wagner.net.yourmammaharvests)
Date: 09/17/04 

Date: Fri, 17 Sep 2004 21:10:05 GMT

On Fri, 17 Sep 2004 13:23:42 -0700, "Chuck Stevens"
<charles.stevens@unisys.com> wrote:

>
>"Howard Brazee" <howard@brazee.net> wrote in message
>news:cifg46$47q$1@peabody.colorado.edu...
>
>> I'd just avoid that syntax altogether. English speakers who understand
>> arithmetic understand COMPUTE just fine.
>
>I don't mind using the arithmetic verbs, but I *always* do so with GIVING,
>which eliminates any ambiguity, as a matter of style.

Now we know the origin of "Add 1 to Cobol giving Cobol."