There's a nice article about Grace Hopper here:
http://www.i-programmer.info/history/8-people/294-the-mother-of-
cobol.html
It shows an example of the verbose language for her B-0 compiler:
The language was targeted at business use and Hopper even felt that
arithmetic expressions were too complicated for the average user and
introduced a very wordy language - for example
Add One To Total
rather than
Total=Total+1
Strangely familiar....
Best,
Mark Smith
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