[Info-vax] COBOL Is Obsolete (was Re: Any stronger versions of the LMF planned ?)

[Phillip Helbig undress to reply]

In article <sietii$qmo$2 at dont-email.me>,
=?UTF-8?Q?Jan-Erik_S=c3=b6derholm?= <jan-erik.soderholm at telia.com>
writes: 

> Den 2021-09-22 kl. 10:15, skrev Lawrence D’Oliveiro:
> > On Saturday, September 18, 2021 at 12:14:00 AM UTC+12, Scott Dorsey wrote:
> >> COBOL isn't a programming language. COBOL is a data description language
> >> that has some programming features on the side. If you look at a well-written
> >> typical COBOL program, the procedure division is a very small part of the total
> >> length.
> > 
> 
> I think that Scott tried to make a joke there. It very much depends
> on the actual application, of course, what the ratio between data
> definition and procedure code is.

Indeed.  There is a huge amount of code using COBOL and SQL (much of it 
with Rdb).