minus-squareAqarius@lemmy.worldtoProgrammer Humor@programming.dev•AI in realitylinkfedilinkarrow-up1·1 month agoIt’s by design very verbose and “English”-like, like instead of x=y*z it would go “MULTIPLY y BY z GIVING x”, the idea was that it would read almost like natural language, so that non-tech staff could understand it. linkfedilink
minus-squareAqarius@lemmy.worldtoProgrammer Humor@programming.dev•AI in realitylinkfedilinkarrow-up1·1 month agoPeople thought COBOL would let managers write code. linkfedilink
It’s by design very verbose and “English”-like, like instead of x=y*z it would go “MULTIPLY y BY z GIVING x”, the idea was that it would read almost like natural language, so that non-tech staff could understand it.