[Info-vax] COBOL Is Obsolete (was Re: Any stronger versions of the LMF planned ?)

[Bill Gunshannon]

On 9/22/21 7:44 AM, Phillip Helbig (undress to reply) wrote:
> 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).
> 

I was doing COBOL with database access (I won't say SQL, it was
different originally) using DMS-11 on a Univac 1100 back in 1980.
It has advanced considerably since then. GnuCOBOL and OCESQL even
let you do it for free if you want to learn how it works.

bill