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<p><a class="user-mention" data-hovercard-type="user" data-hovercard-url="/hovercards?user_id=793526" data-octo-click="hovercard-link-click" data-octo-dimensions="link_type:self" href="https://github.com/b4n">@b4n</a> you said something like it would be fun rewriting those - I would really hate myself for stealing the fun from you :-)</p>
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<p>Hehe <g-emoji class="g-emoji" alias="smile" fallback-src="https://github.githubassets.com/images/icons/emoji/unicode/1f604.png">😄</g-emoji> I gave COBOL a little try, but it now it seems a lot more of a nightmare to do it right (from what I gathered, not only the official syntax uses a pretty random notation, but it also seem close to impossible to parse without knowing every single bit of it -- e.g. it's not easy to locate "statements" or alike).  But well… I'll still try and find a way.</p>

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