[Info-vax] Coding with/without RDBMS

[Arne Vajhøj]

On 10/23/2021 3:57 AM, Lawrence D’Oliveiro wrote:
> On Wednesday, October 20, 2021 at 5:34:36 AM UTC+13, Bill Gunshannon
> wrote:
>> On 10/18/21 10:07 PM, Arne Vajhøj wrote:
>>> 
>>> If companies started with no code at all, then I suspect that 
>>> very few would pick Cobol today.
>>> 
>> And why is that? Is it because the newer languages are better for
>> the tasks COBOL was designed for or is is it because academia 
>> stopped teaching it and chose to attack it vehemently.
> 
> Did it ever occur to you both might be aspects of the same reason?
> 
> I mentioned previously how COBOL was supposedly designed for
> “business” needs, yet it didn’t take long to become apparent that it
> had become woefully out of step with actual “business” needs, when
> businesses became more dependent on SQL databases instead of ISAM
> files; COBOL was born in the era of ISAM files, and never really
> adapted to be being able to cope in a very flexible way with SQL.

As explained to you many times already, then Cobol does
SQL fine via embedded SQL. And this is not just a theoretical
capability - a huge portion of all Cobol programs actually do
so - they access relational databases like Oracle, DB2, Rdb etc..

Arne