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Thorsten Hirsch

Funny to see the syntax highlighting of your Cobol editor. It's not broken, it just wants you to use the old indentation that stems from punch cards. But as I just learned: modern Cobol compilers don't need it anymore, so your Cobol example might work, though.

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Programmer Things

Haha, i was also surprised with the highlighting of the editor 😄