From: john.w.kennedy@gmail.com   
      
   On 2015-07-11 21:28:36 +0000, Michael R N Dolbear said:   
      
   > "Michelle Bottorff"  wrote   
   >   
   >> Brian M. Scott  wrote:   
   >   
   >>> That's correct.  In German:   
   > [...]   
   >>> Gestern schlug er sie.   
   >>> Yesterday hit he her.   
   >   
   >> Thank you!   
   >   
   >> ... I had previously been told that in German the verb always came last.   
   >   
   >> Must be one of those urban legend type thingies.  :)   
   >   
   > I was disabused of that when I, having discovered /French/ COBOL and   
   > hearing of a similar German COBOL, asked how it was handled.   
   >   
   > "Not imperative verbs - and all COBOL verbs are imperative".   
   >   
   > (Simple pre-processor if anyone wonders about implementation).   
      
   Someone back in 1959 or so actually objected to the COBOL IF statement,   
   because "if" is not a verb.   
      
   --   
   John W Kennedy   
   "Give up vows and dogmas, and fixed things, and you may grow like That.   
   ...you may come to think a blow bad, because it hurts, and not because   
   it humiliates.  You may come to think murder wrong, because it is   
   violent, and not because it is unjust."   
     -- G. K. Chesterton.  "The Ball and the Cross"   
      
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