Add 1 to cobol giving cobol
add 1 to cobol giving cobol
humour, language
(From COBOL’s equivalent syntax to C’s C++) A tongue-in-cheek suggestion by Bruce Clement for an object-oriented COBOL.
[SIGPLAN Notices 27(4):90-91 (Apr 1992)].
(1995-03-17)
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