Lawrence D’Oliveiro <lawrenced...@gmail.com>: > On Thursday, August 11, 2016 at 7:18:28 AM UTC+12, Marko Rauhamaa wrote: > >> Oh, there's of course COBOL: >> >> ADD X TO Y GIVING RESULT > > I think COBOL has the same usage of “=” as BASIC, as assignment or > equality comparison, depending on context.
There's the COMPUTE verb that works a bit like that. However, the ADD X TO Y [GIVING Z] MULTIPLY X BY Y [GIVING Z] DIVIDE X BY Y [GIVING Z] is more traditional, I would guess. Also, for simple assignments, there's MOVE: MOVE 'INDIA' TO WS-COUNTRY. <URL: http://www.tutorialspoint.com/cobol/cobol_basic_verbs.htm> My uncle made a career out of COBOL programming. He described his work as consisting mostly of MOVE statements. Marko -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
