[Info-vax] COBOL Is Obsolete (was Re: Any stronger versions of the LMF planned ?)

[Dave Froble]

On 9/22/2021 8:11 AM, Simon Clubley wrote:
> On 2021-09-22, Jan-Erik Söderholm <jan-erik.soderholm at telia.com> wrote:
>> Den 2021-09-22 kl. 10:15, skrev Lawrence D?Oliveiro:
>>> COBOL was born back in the era of ISAM files, and never really adapted to
>>> the widespread adoption of SQL and relational databases.
>>
>> That is a complete BS, of course. As anyone really understanding
>> these matters understand.
>>
>
> Lawrence seems to like COBOL about as much as Phillip likes Linux
> and non-DEC keyboards. :-)
>
> Simon.
>

I'm not a fan of Cobol, mostly because of all the required typing.  So 
verbose.  But once done, it does a decent job.

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