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From: guy@sun.uucp (Guy Harris)
Newsgroups: net.lang
Subject: Re: Reading programs left-to-right.
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Date: Sun, 25-Aug-85 01:37:21 EDT
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Posted: Sun Aug 25 01:37:21 1985
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> All this junk has been taken out of the language.  One now writes
> 
> 	COMPUTE X=A+1.
> 
> just like everybody else.

I'll assume you really meant to say

	A more conventional assignment has been added to the language.
	One now can write...

All that junk is still in the language, and I'm sure is still used by lots
of people.  One hopes they've been disabused of the notion that anybody who
can read English can read COBOL code, however...

	Guy Harris