Re: Next generation COBOL?

> Also, it is SO simple that you could write and debug an
> interpreter or translator for it in something like BASIC in a week or
> so, so it should become ubiquitous for many of the things that VBA and
> Java are now used for,

One of the problem of developing something is that it get ingrained to
the point that it becomes 'obvious'. What is 'easy' is, in fact, what
one is used to. I have no doubt that _you_ could write an interpreter
from scratch in a week, but that is because you would be starting from
a point of the full knowledge of what is required having done this
before, and of having control of the requirements and the reasons for
them.

> because of its 100% readability even by untrained people.

It may well be 'readable' but that does not mean they will understand
the implications of what they are reading.

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