On 31/08/2020 17:57, Martin Gregorie wrote:

> COBOL wasn't actively evil (apart from the ALTER statement - and that had
> vanished by the mid-80s. It just far too verbose:
>
>    ADD A to B GIVING C ON SIZE ERROR PERFORM OVERFLOW-TRAP.
>
That's ~57 bytes .

> where the Java equivalent would be something like:
>
>    try {
>       c = a + b;
>    }
>    catch (ArithmeticException e) {
>       overflowTrap(e);
>    }
>
...and that is ~72....counting tabs and carriage returns..

Definitely java is more verbose.


> There's also a lot of typing involved because of the size ot variable
> names and the number of them you have to define:
>
In Java.




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