Re: Next generation COBOL?

"Herwig Huener & Josella Simone Playton" <news@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> ...
> And then - why should the untrained secretary read programs?
> In order to understand concepts of commerce and finance, a
> mind is not "untrained". ...


Perhaps not an 'untrained secretary', but I have had occasion to show things
like tax and interest calculations in COBOL to accounts, and found it
useful. They could read the calculations with only a bit of explaination on
my part, and because there was no translation needed, what they saw was
indeed what they got.
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