[Info-vax] Coding with/without RDBMS

[Arne Vajhøj]

On 10/18/2021 12:34 PM, Bill Gunshannon wrote:
> On 10/17/21 9:28 PM, Dave Froble wrote:
>> There are no bad instructions, including GoTo.  There is just good and 
>> bad usage
>> of instructions.  A well designed procedure can use any valid 
>> instruction.  One can
>> also write trash without using GoTo.
>>
>> When anyone sets themselves up as the instruction gods, I got no time 
>> for them.
> 
> That's funny...  The academic world did that decades ago.  That's
> why we keep hearing that COBOL is dead  and OOP and Agile are the
> best thing since sliced bread.

It may depend.

Where the last word in "Computer Science" is in 72 pt and there
is violin music in the background I would expect focus to be
in math, FP and languages that are rare in real world like
Haskel and OCaml - with no focus on development methodology.

Lesser pure and more practical institutions may indeed teach
OOP, widely used languages as Python and Java and C#,
relational databases and SQL plus some development methodology
including a bit of waterfall and some generic agile and
probably Scrum.

But there must be extremely few if any all all that
teaches Cobol.

Arne