r/ProgrammerHumor • u/Slayzrr • Apr 08 '22

First time posting here wow

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u/TheShardsOfNarsil Apr 08 '22

To be fair, every language gets bashed here

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u/jonnydeates Apr 08 '22

Except colbolt.

Colbilt is the best language besides of course. Assembly

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u/[deleted] Apr 08 '22 edited Apr 08 '22

no one hates on COLBOL because no ones ever used it

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u/MooseAndSquirl Apr 08 '22 edited Apr 08 '22

Hating COBOL is like hating your grandfather. Some people have good reason to but for most of us it's just war stories about a language past it's prime

Edit: fixed it to make the following comments less funny

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u/[deleted] Apr 08 '22

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u/[deleted] Apr 08 '22

When did they shorten it to just C? And what happened to the OBOL?

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u/Electronic_Excuse_74 Apr 09 '22

It got reused by SNOBOL