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.

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.

I feel like there shoul be an ISO/DIN to define this.

It’s incredibly annoying, though, that you can only copy boards in the app, and when you do it makes triplicate of all the cards.

If youre lazy/busy enough, doing basic checks on the input is enough boilerplate to package out.

Or, yknow, don’t.

OK, so, if the videos might be confusing, can you link to the articles?