Stop feeding the trolls! Kill the autocoding thread!

[Jonathan Gardner]

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On Monday 04 February 2002 11:40 pm, Gerson Kurz wrote:
> On 27 Jan 2002 22:56:24 -0500, Kragen Sitaker <kragen at pobox.com>
>
> wrote:
> >COBOL has the same advantage, really.  Not that I'd want to use or
> >learn COBOL, but if I had to write a program to do some kind of simple
> >calculation and it needed to be readable by nontechnical people, COBOL
> >would be the tool for the job!
>
> Proof that you can write unintelligible code in a language that is as
> COBOLesque as can get:
>
> http://p-nand-q.com/sorted.htm
>
> Here is a fibonacci program in that language (note that everything is
> more or less english):
>
> This code uses the numbers twenty, seventyone, three, two, and one.
> This code sometimes goes to the second label if the first condition is
> true, sometimes goes to the fourth label if the second condition is
> true, always goes to the third label, always goes to the fifth label,
> and always goes to the first label.
> This code writes the eleventh number as a english cardinal.
> This code cannot read.
> This code uses the sums of the tenth number and the eleventh number,
> and of the second number and the fifth number.
> This code uses the condition
> that the second number is equal to the first number,
> and the condition that the second number is less than the third
> number.
> This code uses five labels.
> This code does not use any ordered differences.
> This code assigns the fourth number to the tenth number,
> the fifth number to the eleventh number,
> the fifth number to the second number,
> the second sum to the second number,
> the eleventh number to the fourth number,
> the eleventh number to the tenth number,
> and the first sum to the eleventh number.
> This code does not use any products.
> This code implements
> the third assignment,
> the first label,
> the first jump,
> the second jump,
> the third jump,
> the fourth label,
> the second assignment,
> the sixth assignment,
> the fourth jump,
> the third label,
> the fifth assignment,
> the seventh assignment,
> the first assignment,
> the fifth label,
> the first output,
> the fourth assignment,
> the fifth jump, and
> the second label.
> This code does not use any ratios.
> This code does not use any logical operations.
> Cool.