Yeah, it’s not a joke, it literally happens all the time, and an error after block close generally means the system doesn’t think it’s closed, usually because a bracket isn’t paired off.

Yeah, imagine getting your derealization to go, in a bag and everything.

But then what would they complain about?

Point kinda holds, though. Ignoring the long-term consequences for short-term gain seems to also feature heavily in America.

It’s by design very verbose and “English”-like, like instead of x=y*z it would go “MULTIPLY y BY z GIVING x”, the idea was that it would read almost like natural language, so that non-tech staff could understand it.

People thought COBOL would let managers write code.