[Info-vax] Any stronger versions of the LMF planned ?, was: Re: LMF Licence Generator Code

[Lawrence D’Oliveiro]

On Friday, August 13, 2021 at 5:32:09 AM UTC+12, Bill Gunshannon wrote:
>
> I don't understand his statement at all. COBOL wasn't designed to be a 
> database.

Strawman, much?

I said COBOL was (supposedly) designed specifically for “business” needs. But those “business” needs soon came to include database-intensive applications, for which COBOL was, and remains, completely unsuited.

For an example of what I mean, how would you do the COBOL equivalent of what I can express in a single Python statement:

    filter_clause = " and ".join \
      (
        "%s = %s" % (field_name, format_sql_value(params[field_name]))
        for field_name in field_names
        if params[field_name] != ""
      )

(That is, filter the query on fields where the user entered a value, not on those where the value was left blank.)